Experience has taught me, that in politicks, it is much more easy to gain the battle, than to reap its fruits. –Calhoun
I had not realized how offensive the plain truth can be to the politically correct, how enraged they can be by its mere expression, and how deeply they detest the values and standards respected 50 years ago and which dinosaurs like me still believe in, God help us. –George Macdonald Fraser
Every country boy is entitled to a creek. –Havilah Babcock
This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand. –Zephaniah, 2:15
We are not a virtuous nation. God and fate have not blessed us above others. –Chris Hedges
I did only what my duty demanded. I could have taken no other course without dishonor. And if it all were to be done over again, I should act in precisely the same manner. –R.E. Lee
There are no great men, My Boy, only great committees. –older gowned academic to younger, New Yorker cartoon
TV-watching is a kind of mental illness that limits one’s ability to perceive any reality more substantive than flickering images or drug-induced hallucinations . . . –Thomas Fleming
Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass, it is learning to dance in the rain. –Unknown
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. –Patrick Henry
No one in the South wants to go North and fix things, but for some time now Northerners have been meddling below the Mason-Dixon. . . . Yankees want a perfect world: Southerners don’t look for one or try to impose one on others. –Joyce Bennett
If only Longstreet had . . . . —O. Henry
