“[Smiley writes that upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of] Uncle Tom?s Cabin, ... So this is the little lady who made this big war.”
Abraham Lincoln
“I can not deny that all may be swept away. Broken by it, I, too, may be; bow to it I never will. The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause that we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.”
“America to withdraw its troops from Iraq ahead of schedule. To prepare for the "civil war" brewing back home?”
Muhammed Haider
“Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, ... even during a bloody Civil War.”
“We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.”
“If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on”
“I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office,”
