Civil war Quote by David Armitage

Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?

— Victor Hugo

“The Civil War was pre-eminently a political war, a war of peoples rather than of professional armies.”

— James M. McPherson

“Why do they call them civil wars when they always are so extraordinarily uncivil?”

— Elizabeth Fitch

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

— Victor Hugo

“of the Civil War. They became famously”

— John Metcalfe

“Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of barbarians, she…

— Tom Holland

“Such was the cost of dealing with the Romans: even when one fought against them, the stain of their violence licked and crackled at…

— Ruth Downie

“In time of war the law falls silent. —Marcus Tullius Cicero, 52 BC”

— Frederic C. Rich

“The entire stock of relationships which suited in war—militiae—was regarded as inadmissible and improper in peace—domi. We have the measure of how right the…

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

“Civil war... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as 'foreign war'? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?…

— Victor Hugo

“Civil wars...are the best wars for the writer...because they have a way of continuing long afterwl wars between nations are resolved; because, with the…

— Ralph Ellison

“All war is civil war, for it is always man against man, spilling his own blood, tearing out his own entrails.”

— Fenelon Bonavides Neto