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I watched Ken Burns' Civil War series on PBS. My favorite segment is when Bob Hope entertains the troops at Gettysburg. — Mort Sahl

I am not going to kill you. First I'm going to beat on you for a few hours.
Then I might move on to the cutting. — Marc Guggenheim

I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die. — Andrew Taylor Still

You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict — Juan Williams

For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it. — Smedley Butler

Jesse and Frank James were the most well-known military-trained gang members — Carter F. Smith

My God! My God! What will the country say? — Abraham Lincoln

In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party. — Abraham Lincoln

Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war. — William Odom

It's impossible to say how much the decision to use the tsunami as an opportunity for disaster capitalism contributed to the return to civil war. — Naomi Klein

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in. — Abraham Lincoln

While the scars of the monstrous Civil War still remain, the wounds have closed since 1865, in large part, because of the civility of Grant and Lee. — Douglas Brinkley

My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind. — William Lyon Phelps

The Purpose of life is to thrive and save lives with passion! Save Yazidis today with love and compassion! — Widad Akreyi

Guess that's thirty-one pieces of silver you've got now, huh? Sleep well, Judas. — Mark Millar

I done told you twice already goddammit no! — Nathan Bedford Forrest

There never will be anything more interesting than that American Civil War. — Gertrude Stein

Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free-and we're not. Guess who's winning the war on terror? — Cory Doctorow

He has got the slows, Mr. Blair. — Abraham Lincoln

President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War. — Douglas Brinkley

A war between Europeans is a civil war. — Victor Hugo

We're on the verge of civil war in Northern Ireland. Why? Because if you take away the forums of democracy you don't have anything left. — Ian Paisley

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different. — Daniel Woodrell

Sea and land may lie between us, but my heart is always there with you. — Nancy B. Brewer

Taking Viagra after open heart surgery is like a Civil War re-enactment with live ammo. Not good. — Robin Williams

Grant stood by me when I was crazy ... — William Tecumseh Sherman

I'm in the infantry. What you just showed me, for us that's not even good pornography. — Henry V. O'Neil

Hello fake Everett children. — Monet Polny

Feeling its power, one Civil War paper trumpeted that Milton and Homer were for another age but for this one was the New York Herald. — Harold Holzer

Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. — Abraham Lincoln

My grandparents moved to Texas from the South after the U.S. Civil War and settled on small farms in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. — Robert Woodrow Wilson

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE
AND THANK EVERYONE
WHO TRIES TO MAKE
A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES
OF VULNERABLE CIVILIANS — Widad Akreyi

The hen is the wisest of all the animal creation, because she never cackles until the egg is laid. — Abraham Lincoln

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. — Abraham Lincoln

England's civil war had ended in a consensus as the English discovered that they hated foreigners more than they hated their own countrymen. — Len Deighton

They're right. We're not fighting for the people anymore, Falcon... Look at us. We're just fighting. — Mike Millar

I'd done the method bit before from, like, age 15 to 19. I was a Civil War re-enactor. — Cary Fukunaga

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace. — Herodotus

That living specimen of gall and hatred, that individual. — P. G. T. Beauregard

YAZIDIS AND CHRISTIANS WANT TO BE FREE OF NIGHT MIST AND BEHEADING DRIFT! — Widad Akreyi

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress. — Stephen Ambrose

I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill. — Victor Hugo

Jealousy is a kind of Civil War in the Soul, where Judgment and Imagination are at perpetual Jars. — Various

Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war. — James Buchanan

This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world. — H.L. Mencken

The better angels of our nature — Abraham Lincoln

Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era. — Will Ferrell

The Civil War ravaged the Southern states, while leaving the North untouched. — Eustace Mullins

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful. — Sarah Palin

One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No 'poof.' No flash of light. No explosion. — Michael Grant

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. — Abraham Lincoln

You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world. — Rand Paul

The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred. — Jim Leach

I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses. — Abraham Lincoln

I always thought the Yankees had something to do with it. — George Pickett

Before this war is over, I intend to be a Major General or a corpse. — Isaac R. Trimble

Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war. — Peter DeFazio

Headquarters in the Saddle. — John Pope

When you're in this type of conflict, when you're at war, civil liberties are treated differently. — Trent Lott

Let the world feel your compassion: Help save kidnapped Yazidi females! — Widad Akreyi

Stand by General Burnside as you have stood by me and all will be well. — George B. McClellan

Their object is disunion. — Andrew Jackson

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. — Abraham Lincoln

The Civil War always moves me. — Suzanne Weyn

Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe. — Mark Shields

I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War. — Elbridge Gerry

The war, the American Civil War of 1861-1865, would never have been possible without the sinister influence of the Jesuits. — Abraham Lincoln

If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years. — Ralph Nader

What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will. — Paulette Jiles

In case we have to shoot Democrats. It happened during the Civil War, and it could happen again. — P. J. O'Rourke

Havana is like Beirut, without having gone through the civil war to achieve the destruction. — Theodore Dalrymple

All this has been my fault. — Robert E.Lee

I do not support a civil war. I don't want to be policeman of the world. But we can't back off of this. — John Kasich

There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war. — Victor Hugo

Jason smiled. The sound of wings was louder now, the fluttering of angels come to carry him home. — Robert Ferrigno

Well, it made you famous. — John S. Mosby

I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it. — Abraham Lincoln

Occasionally, a re-enactment is a fine thing. I love Civil War re-enactments. — John Lydon

I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials. — Bum Phillips

An act of a dictatorship is an act of a civil war - Freedom to the people. — Jim

When Ukrainians kill Ukrainians, I believe this is as close to a civil war as you can get. — Sergei Lavrov

Any kingdom divided by civil war is doomed. A family splintered by feuding will fall apart. — Anonymous

There's the devil to pay. — John F. Reynolds

Southern women like their men religious and a little mad. — Michael Shaara

I sure am sick of the Civil War. — Flannery O'Connor

Civil wars leave nothing but tombs. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of the Industrial Age. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Companies aren't families. They're battlefields in a civil war. — Charles Duhigg

We're not going to baby sit a civil war. — Barack Obama

Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be? — William Shakespeare

Teach him to deny himself. — Robert E.Lee

Mars is not an aesthetic God. — John Brown Gordon

Lincoln replied:"There is a difference between secession against the Constitution and in favor of the Constitution. — Clint Johnson

The worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race. — Ayn Rand

Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also. — Ulysses S. Grant

No ONE MENTIONS YOUR TEARS, SADNESS OR SLOW DEATH! BUT, WE FEEL YOUR FALLEN TEARS, YOUR BEHEADED BODIES, YOUR RAPED DIGNITY! — Widad Akreyi

Civil War was recorded by the original line-up — Dizzy Reed

The Lebanese civil war was not between the Lebanese; it was a holy war declared on the Christians. — Brigitte Gabriel

Secretary [John] Kerry has called Civil War [in Syria] an unbelievably small war that we're going to get involved with. — Rand Paul

I come from a stupid family. During the civil war my great uncle fought for the west. — Rodney Dangerfield