Civil war Quote by Sarah Vowell

The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic.

— Daniel Mendelsohn

I think that the firepower of the Civil War, the numbers of bodies that were left to rot, the numbers of amputations in the…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a sense of the whole…

— David Christian

Ideas shape the course of history.

— John Maynard Keynes

The fact that we became a nation and immediately separated church and state - it has saved us from all the misery that has…

— Dumas Malone

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.

— Luke Ford

A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the…

— Arthur Miller

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

— Anonymous

“Those men who laid the foundation of this American government and signed the Declaration of Independence were the best spirits the God of heaven…

— Wilford Woodruff

There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.

— Muriel Rukeyser

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.

— Martin Heidegger