“I love general history. That's all I read really. I don't read novels, I read history. I love it. I live in an area that's really rich in Civil War history. I live in Kentucky on a farm. A lot of revolution, a lot of military history I love.” WarNovelRichMilitaryRevolutionAreasCivil WarFarmsKentuckyMilitary History Author:Steve Zahn
“America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil war, depression and world war, a struggle for civil and social rights and the brink of nuclear crisis. And it is because our dreamers dreamed that we have emerged from each challenge more united, more prosperous, and more admired than before.” WorldWarBigsAmericaSocialChallengesUnitedStruggleRightsLandRevolutionDepressionCrisisNuclearWar Of The WorldsCivil WarDreamerProsperous 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
“You can't put down anybody. You can just try and understand. The emphasis shouldn't be on revolution, it should be on communication. Because it's just going to get more uptight. The more the revolution goes on, and there will be a civil war sooner or later.” ShouldTryingWarCommunicationRevolutionGoes OnCivil WarSooner Or LaterEmphasisUptight Book:David Bowie: The Last Interview Source: David Bowie: The Last Interview
“Unlike the people you see in Mathew Brady's photographs from the Civil War, the men and women of the Revolution seem more like characters in a costume pageant. And it's a pageant in which the performers are all handsome as stage actors, with uniforms and dress that are always costume perfect.” PeopleMenWarCharacterSeemsActorsPerfectStageHe ManRevolutionMen And WomenDressesPhotographCivil WarPerformersUniformsCostumesHandsomePageantBradyStage Actors Author:David McCullough
“Obama is now fighting for his life. He's fighting for a federal government. I believe in a federal government. I hope it sticks around. We had the American Revolution. There was this whole tension between the federalists and the anti-federalists. Then we had the Civil War. We had Lincoln fighting for it. And the secessionists were there. And we have the same issue today.” BelieveWarWholeGovernmentTodayFightingI BelieveIssuesRevolutionSticksI Believe InCivil WarTensionFederal GovernmentAmerican RevolutionFederalist Author:Oliver Stone
“It [the Civil War] was a heroic struggle; and, as is inevitable with all such struggles, it had also a dark and terrible side. Very much was done of good, and much also of evil; and, as was inevitable in such a period of revolution, often the same man did both good and evil. For our great good fortune as a nation, we, the people of the United States as a whole, can now afford to forget the evil, or, at least, to remember it without bitterness, and to fix our eyes with pride only on the good that was accomplished.” PeopleMenWarStatesDoneWholeEyeRememberEvilNationsSidesDarkForgetUnitedUnited StatesStruggleRevolutionPridePeriodsTerribleFortuneInevitableCivil WarAccomplishedGood And EvilBitternessHeroicGood Fortune Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“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
“In the last couple of years before Chairman Mao's death he said that the "Cultural Revolution" had been wrong on two counts: one was "overthrowing all", and the other was waging a "full-scale civil war". These two counts alone show that the "Cultural Revolution" cannot be called correct. Chairman Mao's mistake was a political mistake, and not a small one.” YearsSaidTwoWarShowsLastsPoliticalMistakeRevolutionCoupleScalesCivil WarChairmanMaoChairman Mao Author:Deng Xiaoping
“The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.” PoliticsLibertyRevolutionDefinitionsThanksCivil WarAgreementSheepShepherdsViewpointsDestroyersLiberatorsOpposing Views Author:Abraham Lincoln
“What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.” WarShowsGovernmentStreetsEventsRevolutionMassRaisedCivil WarProtestReplacements Author:Jonathan Sacks
“The right of revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by their government, it is a natural right they enjoy to relieve themselves of oppression, if they are strong enough, whether by withdrawal from it, or by overthrowing it and substituting a government more acceptable.” PeopleIfsEnoughGovernmentStrongEnjoyNaturalLibertyRevolutionLibertarianOppressionCivil WarPatrioticGrantsAcceptableInherentOppressedStrong EnoughWithdrawal Author:Ulysses S. Grant