“I watched Ken Burns' Civil War series on PBS. My favorite segment is when Bob Hope entertains the troops at Gettysburg.” WarSeriesMy FavoriteCivil WarBobTroopsGettysburgPbs Author:Mort Sahl
“You might be a redneck if more than one living relative is named after a Southern Civil War general.” IfsWarMightCivil WarSouthernRelativeRedneckYou Might Be A Redneck IfRedneck HumorFunny Redneck Author:Jeff Foxworthy
“You don't have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. (On the Spanish Civil War, 1937)” WarTruth IsCamerasPropagandaCivil WarBest PictureSpanish Civil War Author:Robert Capa
“The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.” WarCountryEarthFightingPeaceRightsMilitarySoldierCivil WarPatriotismPatriotVolunteerReliabilityWorth Fighting ForConfederatePatriot Day Author:Stonewall Jackson
“Martial sex is kinda like ordering a Civil War chess set through the mail. You get one piece every four to six weeks, you don't know what kind of shape that piece is gonna be in when you get it, but you still gotta pay the handling charges.” KnowsKindStillsWarSexPayPiecesFourWeekShapesSixChessCivil WarMailOne Piece Author:Bill Engvall
“You take a look at the history of African Americans in the US. There's been about thirty years of relative freedom. There was a decade after the Civil War and before north/south compact essentially recriminalized black life. During the Second World War there was a need for free labor so there was a freeing up of the labor force. Blacks benefitted from it.” WorldNeedsYearsLooksWarForceBlackLaborSouthDecadesAfrican AmericanWar Of The WorldsThirtyCivil WarRelativeThirty YearsSecond World WarCompactBlack LivesLabor Force Author:Noam Chomsky
“We need to focus on killing the bad guys, not getting stuck in Middle Eastern civil wars that don't keep America safe.” NeedsWarAmericaGuyFocusMiddleSafeKillingStuckCivil WarEasternBad Guys Author:Ted Cruz
“Moammar Gadhafi and the revolt against Gadhafi was not started by the United States. It was started by the Libyan people. And the reason why I argued we needed to get involved is because he was going to go one way or the other. And my argument then was proven true, and that is, the longer that civil war took, the more militias would be formed and the more unstable the country would be after the fact.” PeopleWayWarCountryStatesReasonFactsWould BeUnitedUnited StatesNeededInvolvedArgumentOne WayReason WhyCivil WarProvenGet InvolvedRevoltUnstableMilitia Author:Marco Rubio
“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.” WorldWantWarSupportCivil WarPolicemen Author:John Kasich
“I've been reading and researching various aspects of history - Dickens' London, Nelson's sea battles, Magellan's nautical explorations, the weapons and battles and key figures of the American Civil War - for most of my life. I pick up a book here or there or see a documentary or talk with an expert in the subject, and my curiosity about the one area of study and discovery always leads to another.” BookWarReadingStudySeaSubjectsFiguresKeysBattleWeaponsPicksDiscoveryAreasAspectCuriosityVariousLondonExpertsCivil WarExplorationDocumentariesAmerican Civil WarNelsonDickensNauticalMagellan Author:Gary Paulsen
“The foreign policy, you have to know how to pick and choose. There's no way, if Saddam [Hussein] had not had weapons of mass destruction, I would have gone, because I don't believe that the U.S. should be involved directly in civil wars.” IfsKnowsWayShouldBelieveWarKnow HowGonePolicyInvolvedWeaponsMassPicksDestructionDon't BelieveCivil WarForeign PolicySaddamHusseinWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass Destruction Author:John Kasich
“Freelancing in Somalia during their civil war and in Kuwait right after the first Bush War, I had some rather intense experiences that made life in the U.S. seem rather shallow and superfluous.” FirstsMadeWarSeemsIntenseCivil WarShallowSuperfluousSomaliaKuwait Author:Peter Menzel
“The withdrawal that Congress is debating now will only effect whether we leave somewhat gracefully or in complete panic and humiliation. Sistani has already made the decision. The Sunnis will not be coming back into the Iraqi government. The die is cast. The civil war will continue. George W. Bush will leave office a complete embarrassment. And he still won't know what happened to him.” KnowsMadeStillsWarGovernmentDiesDecisionHappenedEffectsOfficeCongressCastsCivil WarPanicHumiliationComing BackEmbarrassmentWithdrawal Author:Cenk Uygur
“Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons of the Gestapo, not in order to establish some central-heated, air-conditioned, strip-lighted Paradise, but because they want a world in which human beings love one another instead of swindling and murdering one another.” MenWorldWantHumansHeartWarUsePoliticalOrderHuman BeingsSecretStruggleAirPrisonCivil WarParadiseLove One AnotherHeart BreakingPolitical StruggleGestapoSwindling Book:The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944 Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944
“If we want to understand the actions of a man in the early 1860's, put yourself back there in his shoes. As a young man he began piloting steamboats on the Mississippi, a job he loved and wanted to do the rest of his life, he said. The Civil War ended traffic on the River and his job. He wrote about it in A History of A Campaign That Failed. He said: "I joined the Confederacy, served for two weeks, deserted, and the Confederacy fell." His attachment to the Southern ideal of slavery does not appear very sturdy.” IfsMenWantDoeSaidTwoWarActionWantedJobsYoungWeekIdealsRiversSlaveryShoesCampaignsYoung ManCivil WarAttachmentSouthernTrafficTwo WeeksMississippiDesertedSturdySteamboats Author:Hal Holbrook
“We [Americans] have a historical trauma when it comes to the past relationships when it comes to Native Americans and the history of how America was created. With this film, it's nice to see that the trauma is presented from a white male that was in the Civil War and that trauma affects him in a way that still exists.” WayStillsWarAmericaPastFilmWhiteNiceHistoricalMalesTraumaCivil WarNativeNative AmericanPast Relationship Author:Adam Beach
“When you come to Montgomery, you see fifty-nine monuments and memorials, all about the Civil War, all about Confederate leaders and generals. We have lionized these people, and we have romanticized their courage and their commitment and their tenacity, and we have completely eliminated the reality that created the Civil War.” PeopleWarRealityLeaderCommitmentNineCivil WarFiftyMemorialMonumentTenacityConfederateMontgomery Author:Bryan Stevenson
“In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle, the absence of markers says something really powerful.” WarPowerfulEffortStruggleAbsenceLandscapeCivil WarNobilityImageryConfederateMarkersReally Powerful Author:Bryan Stevenson
“During the civil war, the Sudanese government armed the Misseriya nomads as proxy. Even though both groups had coexisted quite well prior to the conflict, it all become much more difficult as a consequence.” WellsWarGovernmentDifficultGroupsConflictConsequenceCivil WarNomadProxyDuring The Civil War Author:Rebecca Hamilton
“For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an iconic event. Downtown Beirut became a metaphor for so many things: man's inhumanity to man, what Charles Bukowski called "the impossibility of being human." It shaped our perceptions of war and human nature, just as Vietnam did for our parents. We used it to understand how the world works.” MenWorldHumansChildrenBookWarUsedParentGenerationsEventsHuman NaturePerceptionMetaphorCivil WarVietnamBeing HumanImpossibilityMy GenerationIconicDowntownInhumanityBeirutLebaneseInhumanity To Man Author:Annia Ciezadlo
“What it targets is not something that's really looked at a lot in terms of the war. This is stuff that's off the beaten path in terms of what we think of every time you start a Civil War history or a Civil War presentation. It's usually about the military and the soldiers and all that stuff. And this is not. It's the backdrop to a place and a time and circumstances that didn't have anything to do with that.” ThinkingWarStuffTermPathMilitaryCircumstancesSoldierCivil WarTargetBeatenPresentationBackdropBeaten PathOff The Beaten Path Author:Gary Cole
“I remember the first day I was looking at my hands and I thought about my nails. People wouldn't really be paying attention to that, but a Civil War doctor - What would they be doing with their nails? Would they cut them really low? And Dr. Burns said, "No, they would let them grow out so they can scoop stuff out. They would use their nails." So for a while I let my nails grow. They were too long. I kept stabbing myself by accident, so I cut them down, but I was trying to be faithful to the details.” PeopleTryingFirstsLongSaidWarUseHandsRememberGrowsStuffAttentionCuttingLowsDoctorsDetailsAccidentsPay AttentionFaithfulCivil WarNailsDrsBeing FaithfulStabbing Author:Josh Radnor
“I think a lot of Civil War stuff is written - As they say, history is written by the victors. And one of the things that I think is fascinating about this from a purely dramatic perspective is whether someone is right or wrong, you understand where they're coming from in this.” ThinkingWarStuffWrittenPerspectiveDramaticCivil WarFascinating Author:Josh Radnor
“I had an idea to write something set back around the Civil War era, but I was just way too ignorant to think I could start it any time soon.” ThinkingWayWritingIdeasWarIgnorantErasCivil War Author:John Brandon
“But since the end of the 1970s, at the beginning of the revolution in Iran under Khomenei, we have experienced a politicization of Islam. From the beginning, it had a primary adversary: the emancipation of women. With more men now coming to us from this cultural sphere, and some additionally brutalized by civil wars, this is a problem. We cannot simply ignore it.” MenWarEndsProblemRevolutionIslamPrimariesCivil WarIranSpheresAdversariesEmancipation Author:Alice Schwarzer
“One of the songs that stayed in my head that I really considered a lot was an old folk song called 'John Brown' - not the abolitionist John Brown, but the one that Bob Dylan has covered and sung before. It's about a boy coming home from the Civil War, or maybe World War I even, and about his Mother seeing him all destroyed.” WorldWarHomeMotherSongBoysSeeingFolksDestroyedWar Of The WorldsCivil WarBrownComing HomeCoveredBobWorld War IDylanAbolitionistFolk SongsJohn Brown Author:Quentin Tarantino
“As one conservative intellectual said to me - he said if the choice is between [Joseph] Stalin and [Adolf] Hitler, I'd pick Stalin, meaning Ted Cruz because he's more predictable. So there's real civil war inside the Republican Party.” IfsSaidWarRealChoicesPartyRepublicanIntellectualPicksConservativeCivil WarRepublican PartyPredictableCruz Author:Mara Liasson
“I am sympathetic to the fact that Turkey is doing everything it can to prevent the civil war in Syria from spilling over into its own country.” WarCountryFactsCivil WarSyriaTurkeysSympatheticSpilling Author:Thomas de Maiziere
“I worry that I may have overstated the impact of Civil War on the utopians. By the time the Civil War comes, most of the communities were quite separated from the wider American society. Their rhetoric is still about transforming the world, but they're not having that much traffic with their neighbors.” WorldMayStillsWarCommunityWorryImpactNeighborCivil WarRhetoricTrafficTransformingAmerican SocietyTransforming The World Author:Christine Jennings
“I would only go to Syria to destroy ISIS. I would not use U.S. troops to depose Assad. But I would support the rebels there. It's okay to support those people who share your view. But for the United States to be embroiled in a civil war in Syria against [Bashr] Assad I think is a big mistake.” PeopleThinkingWarStatesUseBigsUnitedViewsMistakeUnited StatesSupportShareOkayCivil WarRebelTroopsSyriaIsisAssadBig Mistake Author:John Kasich
“Because the US has control of the sea. Because the US has built up its wealth. Because the US is the only country in the world really not to have a war fought on its territory since the time of the Civil War ... Therefore we can afford mistakes that would kill other countries. And therefore we can take risks that they can't ... the core answer to why the United States is like this is we didn't fight World War I and World War II and the Cold War here.” WorldWarCountryStatesFightingWealthAnswersUnitedMistakeUnited StatesRiskSeaColdBuiltCoreWar Of The WorldsCivil WarTerritoryWorld War IiWorld War IOther CountriesCold War Author:George Friedman
“We've gone thorough religious wars and civil wars. America has gone through slavery, we've all gone through two world wars, segregation. Ultimately it's been a bloody, trying, wasteful, but eventually positive struggle.” WorldTryingTwoWarAmericaReligiousStruggleGoneSlaveryWar Of The WorldsCivil WarBloodySegregationThoroughTwo WorldsReligious Wars Author:Michael Scheuer
“After I finished the Tycoons - on post-Civil War development - I realized how much I didn't know about the first half of the century, even though there had obviously been an enormous amount of development, so I read about and thought about that for a couple of years before I decided I was ready for a book.” KnowsYearsFirstsBookWarHalfCenturyReadyDevelopmentAmountCoupleDecidedFinishedI RealizedEnormousPostsCivil WarTycoons Author:Charles R. Morris
“The drive to scale in almost every endeavor. The British went very large scale in ship building and a few other industries. Their steel plants were bigger and much more advanced than ours after the Civil War, but we had blown past them by the mid-80s.” WarPastBuildingIndustryBiggerPlantBritishScalesShipsCivil WarEndeavorSteel80sLarge Scale Author:Charles R. Morris
“So we didn't get the denominations and the separate congregations really till about into Civil War time. What's happened then, of course, is now that we've had well over 100 years of this history to establish separate cultures, different ways of worshipping, and different ways of understanding theology so that when people try to come together makes it very difficult. And then, of course, social networks, you know, how do we find a place to worship?” PeopleKnowsWayTryingYearsWellsDifferentWarTogetherCultureCoursesSocialDifficultUnderstandingKnow HowHappenedWorshipTheologyDifferent WaysCivil WarSocial NetworkCongregationDenominationsWar Time Author:Michael Emerson
“Mexico is sex and Canada is mind. There is much about Canada that I find admirable - the treatment of immigrants, for example, particularly those from Central America during the recent civil wars there. But there is confusion too: I know of Croatian Nazis who are subsidized by the Canadian government to maintain their racist culture. There is Canada, trying to sustain diversity without knowing exactly what it's doing.” KnowsTryingMindWarGovernmentAmericaCultureSexKnowingExampleDiversityConfusionCivil WarCanadaTreatmentRacistImmigrantsMexicoNaziAdmirableCentral AmericaCanadian GovernmentCroatians Author:Richard Rodriguez
“Well, it's an ancestral tribe. These were immigrants from north of Germany who came here about the time of the Civil War, but anyway, these people called themselves free thinkers. They were impressed, incidentally, by Darwin. They're called Humanists now; people who aren't so sure that the Bible is the Word of God.” PeopleWellsWarCivil WarGermanyImmigrantsThinkerWord Of GodImpressedTribesFree Thinkers Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“Some of the inspirations I had as far as following that story would be, like, say, "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly," the way they use the Civil War in that, or even the idea that - the movie that Leone was going to do before he died was going to be a movie about the battle of Stalingrad.” WayIdeasWarStoriesUseInspirationWould BeBattleDiedFollowingUglyCivil WarGood The Bad And The UglyStalingrad Author:Quentin Tarantino
“I think there's evil on both sides [of Syria], and I think that's one reason I don't want to be involved in civil war. I see things in personal terms. I just can't see sending one of my sons - or your son or daughter - to fight in a civil war, where on one side we have a dictator, who in all likelihood gassed his people.” PeopleThinkingWantWarReasonFightingEvilSidesTermSonInvolvedDaughterCivil WarMy SonDictatorSyriaBoth SidesLikelihoodYour Son Author:Rand Paul
“The question's whether or not there's an American interest in the Civil War [in Syria]. The question is whether or not a military strike on [Bashar] Assad will cause him to be encouraged to use more weapons or discouraged. It's easy enough to say - and the president [Barack Obama] says though this will teach him a lesson - but his military strike is intended not to target him individually, not to bring about regime change.” WarEnoughUseCausesEasyPresidentInterestTeachMilitaryLessonsWeaponsStrikesBarackCivil WarTargetRegimesSyriaDiscouragedPresident Barack ObamaAssadBe EncouragedRegime Change Author:Rand Paul
“Secretary [John] Kerry has called Civil War [in Syria] an unbelievably small war that we're going to get involved with.” WarInvolvedCivil WarSecretarySyriaGet InvolvedJohn Kerry Author:Rand Paul
“The first slap-jack given me for dinner was a cake of flour, partially fried in a pan of fat bacon. I nibbled about the brown edges and threw it, unbaked, against a barn door, where it stuck for days.” FirstsWarGivenDoorsEdgesDinnerStuckFatsCivil WarBrownCakeSlapBarnsFlour Author:James Smith
“Mr. President at this time it is suicide, murder, and will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike a hornet's nest which extends from mountain to ocean, and legions now quiet will swarm out and sting us to death.” WarPresidentLosesQuietMountainOceanMurderSuicideStrikesCivil WarNestsLegionSwarmsHornets Author:Robert Toombs
“Let's say Twitter existed during the Civil War. We would have a better understanding of people in the Confederacy who were against slavery, people in the North who actually felt we should just let the South be the South. Because the way it is now, it seems like we have this portrait where everybody in Georgia hated Yankees and everybody in the North was enlightened. That wouldn't seem as clear cut as it does now.” PeopleWayShouldDoeWarSeemsFeltUnderstandingClearCuttingSlaverySouthHatedCivil WarEnlightenedPortraitsYankeesGeorgiaDuring The Civil War Author:Chuck Klosterman
“Boris [Johnson] and Dave [Cameron] gnawed each other's testicles [during the Tory civil war which blighted the EU referendum].” WarCivil WarJohnsonDaveCameronReferendumsTesticles Author:Ken Livingstone
“When historians get to write the truth about this completely unnecessary referendum [Brexit] they won't say it was a vote demanded by the British people to decide their national destiny. They will say it was the final battle in a decades-long Tory Civil War, at the heart of which was a fight to the death between two Old Etonians, David Cameron and Boris Johnson, for the hollow crown. A sort of Eton Wall Game. Where the poorest are put up against the wall and shot.” PeopleWritingHeartLongTwoWarFightingGamesDestinyWallBattleShotsVoteFinalsBritishDecadesCivil WarHistorianCrownsUnnecessaryHollowJohnsonPoorestCameronReferendumsEton Author:Brian Reade
“When it was announced that Spider-Man was going to be in Captain America: Civil War, "Miles Morales" was trending on Twitter for like a week. More people than I ever thought had heard of it. Listen, people go to Build-a-Bear and make your Miles Morales Build-a-Bears and tell everybody that's what we want!” PeopleMenWantWarAmericaHeardWeekBearsMilesCivil WarCaptainsSpidersMoraleSpider Man Author:Brian Michael Bendis
“There is also the issue of personal privacy when it comes the executive power. Throughout our nation's history, whether it was habeas corpus during the Civil War, Alien and Sedition Acts in World War I, or Japanese internment camps in World War II, presidents have gone too far.” WorldWarNationsPresidentGoneIssuesAliensWar Of The WorldsCivil WarPrivacyExecutivesCampsWorld War IiWorld War ICorpusExecutive PowerInternmentHabeas CorpusDuring The Civil WarInternment CampsPersonal Privacy Author:Dick Durbin
“The literature of the Spanish Civil War is also important to me. Above all George Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" as well as the writing of John Dos Passos and Ernest Hemingway. They worked on a film together in Spain during that war, which ended their friendship.” WritingWellsImportantWarTogetherFilmLiteratureCivil WarSpainHomageCataloniaSpanish Civil War Author:George Packer