Children Quote by George Saunders

“Executive Mansion, Washington, Nov. 21, 1864. Dear Madam,-- I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant…

— Abraham Lincoln

“I sent letters to the families of every service member who laid down his or her life in the war on terror. By the…

— George W. Bush

“The histories and tragedies of Shakespeare that Lincoln loved most dealt with themes that would resonate to a president in the midst of civil…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“That was the only tragic thing about books: they changed people. All except the truly evil, who did not become better fathers, nicer husbands,…

— Nina George

Nothing will turn you into a Civil War buff like five years of reading. Some of the letters that people wrote from that time…

— George Saunders

On the eve of the Civil War, James Parton could write that 'the political history of the United States, for the last thirty years,…

— James Parton

“For the first time in their memory, certainly since the earliest beginnings of the Civil War, Americans facing the shared tragedy of Garfield’s ordeal…

— Candice Millard

“To be young and in love. Isn’t it remarkable that something like that can happen in the middle of a war? It says something…

— Mark T. Sullivan

“As sometimes happens with men who wish to fight but do not or cannot, Reagan developed a romantic image of the military.”

— Scott Farris

“A good chunk of my life had been spent sorting out the scrambled communications, festering hostilities, and frozen affections that characterized families in turmoil. (257)”

— Jonathan Kellerman

“As he had done so many times before, Lincoln withstood the storm of defeat by replacing anguish over an unchangeable past with hope in…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“In a question of veracity between U.S. Grant and Andrew Johnson, between a soldier whose honor is as untarnished as the sun, and a…

— Ron Chernow