“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
“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
“The Confederate Constitution was almost identical to that of the United States.” WarStatesUnitedHistoryUnited StatesConstitutionCivil WarIdenticalAmerican Civil WarConfederate Author:Bruce Catton
“Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is... it made us an is.” MadeWarStatesUnitedHistoryUnited StatesCivil WarAmerican Civil War Author:Shelby Foote
“A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.” SaidTwoWarStatesUnitedUnited StatesEventsMinesCivil War Author:Arthur Miller
“If we trace origins of anarchism in the United States, then probably Henry David Thoreau is the closest you can come to an early American anarchist. You do not really encounter anarchism until after the Civil War, when you have European anarchists, especially German anarchists, coming to the United States. They actually begin to organize. The first time that anarchism has an organized force and becomes publicly known in the United States is in Chicago at the time of Haymarket Affair.” IfsFirstsWarStatesForceUnitedKnownUnited StatesFirst TimeAffairCivil WarEncountersOrganizedChicagoClosestOrganizeAnarchismAnarchistDavid Thoreau Author:Howard Zinn
“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
“The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world - right after the Civil War. The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America's ever had.” WorldWarCountryStatesAmericaCertainUnitedUnited StatesAmountPeriodsCivil WarBrutalCasualtiesJunkie Author:Al Lewis