Civil war Quote by Ken Burns

I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of…

— Ken Burns

“Once the American Revolution is understood as a civil war, much falls into place.”

— Daniel Hannan

“Has there ever been a country that, once colonized, avoided civil war?”

— Roma Tearne

“of the Civil War. They became famously”

— John Metcalfe

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

— James M. McPherson

“There never will be anything more interesting than that American Civil War.”

— Gertrude Stein

“In the 1800s, the United States was divided over the issue of slavery. The North wanted the country to end all slavery. But the…

— Mary Pope Osborne

“Politics is an ongoing civil war designed to pit one against the other that would normally be friends”

— Johnny Flora

“Great War was from the first the White Civil War,”

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

“Supposedly, there was a civil war going on and my brother was part of it. Welcome to the struggle.”

— James Cox

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

— Elizabeth Fitch

“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