"There are some places where history just grabs……" — Simon Schama
"There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them."
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57 Quotes by Simon Schama
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But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.
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Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness…
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From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its…
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From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the…
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Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.
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The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.
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I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love...You never forget. It's special. It's the first…
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DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.
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What can art really do in the face of atrocity?
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Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed…
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Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is...…
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The great theme of modern British history is the fate of freedom. The 18th century inherits, after the Civil War,…
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More Civil War Quotes
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Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you…
— Margaret Atwood
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You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in…
— George H. W. Bush
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Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the…
— Stephen Ambrose
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Ty Cobb was still fighting the Civil War, and as far as he was concerned, we were all damn Yankees.…
— Unknown Author
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But if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would, indeed be…
— Humphry Davy
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But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.
— Simon Schama
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On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a…
— Patricia Cornwell
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During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I am deeply skeptical of re-entering into Iraq's civil war.
— John Garamendi
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At the end of the day...if your army won't fight, it's because they don't trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they…
— Barry McCaffrey
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The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out…
— H. L. Mencken
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You will have to go through 15, 20, 50 years of civil wars and national struggles not only to bring…
— Karl Marx
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