“I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.” — Montesquieu Copy Share Image
We must look to the rising generation for the restoration of the country. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
If slaves will make good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong. — Howell Cobb Copy Share Image
For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I've always been a Civil War buff. In fact, the ships that always fascinated me the most were the ironclads, because they… — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
“You don’t mess with a man’s weapons in the USA. That’s how fistfights and civil wars start. He” — Kurt Schlichter Copy Share Image
I believe it to be the duty of everyone to unite in the restoration of the country and the reestablishment of peace… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on… — Nick Turse Copy Share Image
I am trying to prevent a bloodbath. Is that clear enough for you? I'm trying to prevent a civil war that could… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
“For realists, the true story of the Civil War illuminates the problem of ostensibly sober-minded compromise with powerful, and intractable, evil.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“The Civil War was pre-eminently a political war, a war of peoples rather than of professional armies.” — James M. McPherson Copy Share Image
What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Whether the struggle was between English merchants and the American colonies, pre Civil War northern manufacturers vs. southern slave holders, or American… — Danny K. Davis Copy Share Image
“Lee replied: "Tell your friends it is unworthy of them as women, especially Christian women, to cherish feelings of resentment against the… — Clint Johnson Copy Share Image
In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
In 1961, an official U.S. commission oversaw thousands of events to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the American Civil War. All 50… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
“I hadn't had a chance to read an entire novel in weeks. Whatever the others might say about politics, civil war, and… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary's childhood memories extended… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“Civil wars...are the best wars for the writer...because they have a way of continuing long afterwl wars between nations are resolved; because,… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“These boozy and licentious variety halls thrived on the patronage of civil War soldiers on furlough, prompting moralists to persuade the city… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
The War of the Roses in England and the Civil War in America were both intestinal conflicts arising out of similar ideas.… — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share Image
“You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be a little… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Because the US has control of the sea. Because the US has built up its wealth. Because the US is the only… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry… — William Henry Chamberlin Copy Share Image
I'm working on a script right about Civil War re-enactors who go back in time to the actual Civil War. It's kind… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
“I asked him if he thought “there” was better than “here.” “Not better,” he said. “I mean, my great-great-grandpap got his leg… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
“Evolution of mind was altogether another matter and belonged to another science, but whether one traced descent from the shark or the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Attention, Texas Brigade! The eyes of General Lee are upon you. Forward, march! — Maxcy Gregg Copy Share Image
“The human race is a family. Men are brothers. All wars are civil wars. ” — Adlai Stevenson Copy Share Image
I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
