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“You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.”

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Author:T Bone Burnett

“Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.”

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Author:William Eldridge Odom

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

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Author:Peter DeFazio

“This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.”

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Author:Edvard Munch

“The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war.”

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Book:Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth: Also Addresses Before Georgia Legislature Woman's Clubs, Women's Organizations and Other Noted Occasions

Source: Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth: Also Addresses Before Georgia Legislature Woman's Clubs, Women's Organizations and Other Noted Occasions

“I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.”

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Book:The Works of Victor Hugo

Source: The Works of Victor Hugo

“The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.”

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Book:The reminiscences of an astronomer

Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer

“Forests are breaking out all over America. New England has more forests since the Civil War. In 1880, New York State was only 25 percent forested. Today it is more than 66 percent. In 1850, Vermont was only 35 percent forested. Now it's 76 percent forested and rising. In the south, more land is covered by forest than at any time in the last century. In 1936 a study found that 80 percent of piedmont Georgia was without trees. Today nearly 70 percent of the state is forested. In the last decade alone, America has added more than 10 million acres of forestland.”

“We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.”

Want War Alive Civil War

Author:Bobby Riggs

“This must be a world of democracy and respect for human rights, a world freed from the horrors of poverty, hunger, deprivation and ignorance, relieved of the threat and the scourge of civil wars and external aggression and unburdened of the great tragedy of millions forced to become refugees.”

Source: Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom

“My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.”

Mind War Religion Religious Fields Remains Possession Civil War Religious Faith Skeptical

Book:Autobiography: with letters

Source: Autobiography: with letters

“Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.”

War Humanity Perspective Civil War Sanctity

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the physical elimination not only of political adversaries but of entire categories of citizens who for some reason cannot be integrated into the political system”

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Book:State of Exception

Source: State of Exception

“The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.”

War States United United States Needed Civil War

Author:Umberto Eco

“Our statute books gradually became laden with gross, stereotyped distinctions between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the position of women in our society was, in many respects, comparable to that of blacks under the pre-Civil War slave codes.”

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Author:William J. Brennan

“The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Twenty-two percent of Americans say their primary news source is Fox News. It's divided our country in a way that we haven't been divided probably since the Civil War, and its empowered large corporations to get certain kinds of politicians and ideologues who are in the United State Congress elected -- the Tea Party ideologues who control the Republican Party.”

“Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.”

Men Equal Every Man Civil War

Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“Decision making can sometimes seem like inner civil war.”

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Author:Jim Rohn

“The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of violent conflict have branded it as a dismal science and why this age of wars, civil wars, and destruction has no use for it.”

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Book:Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays

Source: Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays

“I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the North and the South and the Civil War; I really mean just politically.”

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Author:James Spader

“We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“If I became lost in the multiverse, exploring infinite parallel dimensions, my only criterion for settling down somewhere would be whether or not I could find you: and once I did, I'd stay there even if it was a world ruled by giant spider-priests, or one where killer robots won the Civil War, or even a world where sandwiches were never invented, because you'd make it the best of all possible worlds anyway, and plus we could get rich off inventing sandwiches.”

“That in order to achieve the triumph of liberty, justice and peace in the international relations of Europe, and to render civil war impossible among the various peoples which make up the European family, only a single course lies open: to constitute the United States of Europe”

Source: Selected writings [of] Michael Bakunin

“Died of wounds inflicted in error by his own troops at the battle of Chancellorsville during the US Civil War. Let us cross over the river and sit in the shade of the trees.”

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Author:Stonewall Jackson

“The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.”

Doe War Ends Peace Serious Civil War

Author:T. S. Eliot

“The Syrian civil war is a "crime initiated by the United States and the Zionist regime, Israel."”

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Author:Ali Khamenei

“The fact that we became a nation and immediately separated church and state - it has saved us from all the misery that has beset mankind with inquisitions, internecine and civil wars, and other assorted ills.”

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Author:Dumas Malone

“The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.”

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Author:Sarah Vowell

“We have to bring stability to Iraq, otherwise we will be faced with a future dilemma of sending our loved ones into harms way to stop a civil war or the rise of a new tyrant born from the instability that we created.”

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Author:Jay Rockefeller

“There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?”

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Author:Jon Voight

“One of the things that most people aren't aware of when they think of the Civil War is the number of people and associated animals. (Armies) weren't mechanized. They had to rely on horses and mules.”

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Author:Gary Miller

“We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.”

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Author:Waylon Jennings

“If you print money like in Zimbabwe... the purchasing power of money goes down, and the standards of living go down, and eventually, you have a civil war.”

Ifs War Standards Europe Down And Civil War Print Standards Of Living Zimbabwe Purchasing Purchasing Power

Author:Marc Faber

“Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it only the symbol of murder, plunder, oppression, and shame.”

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Book:My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington

Source: My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington

“History of America, Part I (1776-1966): Declaration of Independence, Constitutional Convention, Louisiana Purchase, Civil War, Reconstruction, World War I, Great Depression, New Deal, World War II, TV, Cold war, civil-rights movement, Vietnam. History of America, Part II (1967-present): the Super Bowl era. The Super Bowl has become Main Street’s Mardi Gras.”

“Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.”

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Author:Mordecai

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

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest memory of our world.”

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Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.”

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Author:Elie Wiesel

“All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.”

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Author:Francois Fenelon

“It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no lack of acquaintance between the two warring sides.”

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Book:The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness

Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness

“Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.”

“I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.”

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Author:John Mason Brown

“Liberty may be of no more use Than stirring up the flame of civil wars; Then, by disorder fatal to the world, One wants no king, the other wants no equal.”

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Author:Pierre Corneille

“Most historians agree that Abraham Lincoln was the most important man to ever occupy the White House because he abolished slavery and kept the states united through a bloody civil war.”

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Author:Kitty Kelley

“When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has its unique local circumstances.”

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Author:Atifete Jahjaga

“I grew up 60 minutes way from Richmond, in Charlottesville, Virginia and, as a child, I was obsessed with the Civil War. I used to do re-enactments and all that stuff.”

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Author:Billy Campbell

“Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.”

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Author:Gianni Agnelli

“From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary's childhood memories extended back to the confusing and violent finale of the Civil War, and she told stories of brutal murders in those days and refused to name some of the killers, as if dead men might still be prosecuted in the late 1950s.”

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Author:Charles Frazier