“[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
“In the end, no amount of American forces can solve the political differences that lie at the heart of somebody else's civil war.” HeartWarEndsPoliticalLyingForceDifferencesAmountSolveCivil WarPolitical Differences Author:Barack Obama
“The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640's, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.” WorldFirstsIdeasWarPoliticalCenturyRevolutionCurrentsCivil WarSovereigntyCanonEnglish Speaking Author:Bernard Bailyn
“Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.” MeanWarPoliticalFeltMilitarySoldierAffectionProfessionCivil WarGrantsFondnessOld Soldiers Author:Ulysses S. Grant
“Some of my earliest political feelings were based on the anti-Japanese bubblegum cards I got. There were also Spanish Civil War bubblegum cards. Awful.” WarFeelingsPoliticalCardsAwfulCivil WarSpanish Civil War Author:Ed Asner
“On the eve of the Civil War, James Parton could write that 'the political history of the United States, for the last thirty years, dates from the moment when the soft hand of Mr. Van Buren touched Mrs. Eaton's knocker.'” WritingYearsWarStatesMomentsHandsLastsPoliticalUnitedUnited StatesThirtyCivil WarTouchedVansThirty YearsPolitical HistoryKnockers Author:James Parton