“My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.” WarCountryMajorsMy FamilyCivil War Author:Jack Scalia
“What could I do but go with them Civil War soldiers, or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.” WarCountryFatherBloodCivilizationSoldierWarmCivil WarPatriotVeinsSoldiers At War Author:Clara Barton
“Whenever I speak at the United Nations, UNICEF or elsewhere to raise awareness of the continual and rampant recruitment of children in wars around the world, I come to realize that I still do not fully understand how I could have possibly survived the civil war in my country, Sierra Leone.” WorldChildrenStillsWarCountrySpeakNationsRealizingUnitedAwarenessRaisesAround The WorldCivil WarElsewhereSurvivedUnited NationsSierraRecruitmentUnicefSierra Leone Author:Ishmael Beah
“Hemans gallows ought to be the fate of all such ambitious men who would involve their country in civil wars, and all the evils in its train that they might reign & ride on its whirlwinds & direct the Storm The free people of these United States have spoken, and consigned these wicked demagogues to their proper doom.” PeopleMenWarCountryStatesMightEvilUnitedUnited StatesFateOughtDirectTrainStormCivil WarWickedAmbitiousReignDoomGallowsAmbitious Man Author:Andrew Jackson
“[S]tatism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. It leaves men no choice but to fight to seize political power -- to rob or be robbed, to kill or be killed. ... Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.” MenWarCountryPoliticalChoicesFightingViolenceProductionsCivil WarPerpetualLeaving MePolitical PowerFree CountryLooting Author:Ayn Rand
“The tragedy of civil wars in countries like Angola and Mozambique is that they left many civilians maimed. Poverty is the reason HIV/AIDS spread so rapidly in the African townships and slums. Poverty is the real killer.” WarRealCountryReasonLeftPovertyTragedySpreadAidsCivil WarKillersCiviliansHivSlumsHiv AidsMozambiqueAngola Author:Miriam Makeba
“Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers - if only to become the kind of country that could no longer conceive of how that was possible.” IfsKindMadeWarCountryNumbersHistoryCivil WarAmerican Civil War Author:Bruce Catton