"War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace." — William Tecumseh Sherman

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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
• 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
• Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the… — Stephen Ambrose
• Ty Cobb was still fighting the Civil War, and as far as he was concerned, we were all damn Yankees.… — Unknown Author
• But if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would, indeed be… — Humphry Davy
• But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated. — Simon Schama
• On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a… — Patricia Cornwell
• During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant… — Abraham Lincoln
• I am deeply skeptical of re-entering into Iraq's civil war. — John Garamendi
• 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
• The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out… — H. L. Mencken
• 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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