Civil war Quote by Diana Gabaldon

In 18th-century Scotland, the main event was the Jacobite rebellion under Bonnie Prince Charlie, so that seems like a nice dramatic backdrop.

— Diana Gabaldon

For a very long time, loyalists were often left out of patriotic American histories of the revolution. Or they were caricatured as upper-class Tory…

— Linda Colley

A fundamental reason why Britain was not torn apart by civil war after 1688 was that its inhabitants' aggression was channelled so regularly and…

— Linda Colley

“Scotland was not imune to these developments, but since their role in France, Germany, Itay and Poland was to provide the ideological amunition to…

— Colin McArthur

If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.

— Paul Harris

“The traumatic experience of the Civil War and its aftermath in the 19th century was the incubator of Christian fundamentalism in 20th century America. The…

— Andrew Himes

Well, if there is a spectrum between ethnic and civic forms of nationalism, which is a rather schematic way of looking at it, all…

— Neal Ascherson

“The “large majority of ministers who published sermons during the Revolutionary era justified the war effort by a rationale that was more political than…

— Steven K. Green

I am against nationalists, but I am very much in favour of patriots.

— Jean-Claude Juncker

The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march…

— Tariq Ali

Let's be clear: a nationalist is not a patriot.

— Frans Timmermans

“In the sixteenth century the unity of western European Christendom had been shattered by the rise of Protestantism in its various strands (Lutheran, Calvinist,…

— Jerry Z. Muller