The Confederacy was formed for the purpose of seceding from the Union because those states could not part with their rights to… — Jack Schlossberg Copy Share Image
I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted. — Tamara Feldman Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy. — Corey Reynolds Copy Share Image
The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious… — Franklin Pierce Copy Share Image
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live… — Chesty Puller Copy Share Image
“the Confederacy had been poisoned by more jealousies than a hundred high-bred gals could muster in competition for a single male.” — Ralph Peters Copy Share Image
“If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory.” — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
“Whatever the reason for enlisting, by 1865 the Union had sworn in 2,128,948 men, approximately one-third of the military-age male population of… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
“Tyranny flourishes in those societies that reject the Reformed Faith. Tyranny is squelched and liberty flourishes in those societies that embrace the… — Joseph C. Morecraft III Copy Share Image
“The Confederacy was on the wrong side of history and humanity. It sought to tear apart our nation and subjugate our fellow… — Mitch Landrieu Copy Share Image
“We’re not part of the Confederacy anymore, either. There’s as many crooks trying to run the south as there are in the… — Keith R. Baker Copy Share Image
From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
“Netherton was looking at the oversized bronze head of a bearded man, its neck having been crudely severed from whatever figure it… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I think slavery was an awful, awful period in our history, but when I look at what's become of black culture since… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Propaganda is a weapon that the Confederacy wields best, and wields heaviest. It is their hammer. And when all you have is… — Jeff Grubb Copy Share Image
If we want to understand the actions of a man in the early 1860's, put yourself back there in his shoes. As… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
If your great-great-grandfather participated on the Confederate side, and you hold some sentimental value to that, and you want to fly the… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
“[The South's] obsession was to maintain a government, an economy, an arrangement of the sexes, a relationship of the races, and a… — John Hope Franklin Copy Share Image
The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Many also forget that the international campaign in solidarity with the Union under the Lincoln presidency rallied at a time when it… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was growing up in an era of celebration of the Civil War centennial, with a lot of 'Lost… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
The defect of power in the existing confederacy, to regulate the commerce between its several members is in the number of those… — James Madison Copy Share Image
My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“The fear had precedent. Toward the end of the Civil War, having witnessed the effectiveness of the Union's 'colored troops,' a flailing… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Michael King was a young preacher with horn-rimmed glasses and a close-cropped beard and mustache. "The Bible says, if eating meat offends… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
“When the singing ended, I chatted with others in my pew, including a tall, aristocratic-looking man with pomaded gray hair. I told… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
“History textbooks still present Union and Confederate sympathizers as equally idealistic. The North fought to hold the Union together, while the South… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“Besides the moral courage required to accept commissions in the Fifty-fourth at the time it was organizing, physical courage was also necessary,… — Luis Fenollosa Emilio Copy Share Image
“Criticism of Davis was neither new nor unusual, for his Confederacy was by no means a monolithic state. Secession had been imposed… — Burke Davis Copy Share Image
“Some of you from outside the South may be wondering why we’re emphasizing this irrefutable historical fact that everyone should know so… — Trae Crowder Copy Share Image
“None of this means of course that Robert E. Lee wasn't influenced by his father, or didn't inherit some of his better… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
We are not a nation, but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign states. — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory. — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book. — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section,… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
“Instead of revering a four-year brief historical aberration that was called the Confederacy we can celebrate all 300 years of our rich,… — Mitch Landrieu Copy Share Image
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