#civil war

We have to bring stability to Iraq, otherwise we will be faced with a future dilemma of sending our loved ones into harms way to stop a civil war or the rise of a new tyrant born from the instability that we created. ↗

— Jay Rockefeller

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The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

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The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later. ↗

— Corrine Brown

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You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that's based on religion. ↗

— Midge Ure

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There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country? ↗

— Jon Voight

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We are losing each day an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more. If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is. ↗

— Iyad Allawi

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But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

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And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War. ↗

— Shelby Foote

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This union has been divided in like a civil war - brother against brother - sister against sister. And I'm pulling it together. We've already seen evidence of that in New York, in Pennsylvania, in California. The first thing is we have to get on the same page. We have to be united in one cause. ↗

— James P. Hoffa

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My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War. ↗

— Jack Scalia

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