A good dog needs no pedigree, and if a dog ain’t any good, a pedigree don’t help him none. –Havilah Babcock
Southerners are the world’s worst record-keepers. –Havilah Babcock
It is true that we are completely under the saddle of Massachusetts and Connecticut, and that they ride us very hard, cruelly insulting our feelings, as well as exhausting our strength and substance. –Thomas Jefferson, 1798
We have made good progress today in the work of destruction. Jackson [Mississippi] will no longer be a point of danger. The land is devastated for thirty miles around. —General Sherman to General Grant, May 1863
There is at work in this land a Yankee spirit and an American spirit. –James H. Thornwell, 1859
I am convinced ‘twas Calhoun who divined How the great western star’s last race would run. –Allen Tate
Empires crumble. There are no exceptions. –Oscar Wilde
Fate can smirk as well as smile. –Ferrol Sams
Public estimation of eminence runs in reverse ratio to its genuineness. –H.L. Mencken
Write down and put in your wallet the term “neocon Trotskyite dialectic.” –Christopher Manion
For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counselor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word. Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion. –Isaiah 41: 28–29
Yankees are the only people who think you should be grateful when they invade your country. –Clyde Wilson
If only Longstreet had . . . . –O. Henry
