#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

#bring #civil #civil war #created #dilemma

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

#abraham lincoln #after #almost #civil #civil war

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

#civil #civil war #entire #find #help

I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#civil #civil war #cliched #cut #dances

Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#civil #civil war #essentially #forced #iraq

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. ↗

— Steve Zahn

#civil #civil war #farm #general #history

If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Taliban will get a little stronger in Afghanistan and the civil war will continue to be enhanced in Iraq. ↗

— Alcee Hastings

#american #american soldiers #anything #civil #civil war

A war between Europeans is a civil war. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#civil #civil war #europeans #war

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? ↗

— Victor Hugo

#between #brothers #civil #civil war #does

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#civil war #forward #history #ii #non