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The worst revolutionaries today are those reactionaries who do not see and will not admit that there is any need for change.
Southern Victory (1997)
Falling asleep in a corset was impressive proof of what exhaustion could do.
Southern Victory (1997)
He didn’t doubt there would be a next war; there would always be a next war.
The Great War: Breakthroughs (2000)
Don’t do anything to make things worse was the eleventh commandment of the ghetto, at least as important as the original ten.
Southern Victory (1997)
You can only bend the long arm of coincidence so far before you break it.
Southern Victory (1997)
The Mormons habitually dissembled about their plural marriages.
Southern Victory (1997)
The bullet doesn’t care who shot it, only where it’s going.
Southern Victory (1997)
They eyed each other in perfect mutual incomprehension.
Southern Victory (1997)
Whites are so mystified, they put race ahead of class.
Southern Victory (1997)
Sometimes convenience counted for more than ideology.
Southern Victory (1997)
Being sure wasn’t the same thing as being right.
Southern Victory (1997)
Had optimism run that far ahead of common sense?
Southern Victory (1997)
Never can tell with this, though. That there man taught the Mississippi to be twisty.
Southern Victory (1997)
In a way, misery loves company. In another way, if everyone’s in trouble, nobody can help anybody else get out of it.
Southern Victory (1997)
He’d got good at the bureaucratic infighting, too, the sort of quiet warfare that measured itself as much by things prevented as by those accomplished.
Southern Victory (1997)
“‘The Confederate state must make up for what everyone else has neglected in this field. It must set race at the center of all life. It must take care to keep itself pure.’”
Southern Victory (1997)
The Book of Mormon is no more the word of God than is an advertising circular for stomach powders.
Southern Victory (1997)
I’ve always tried to be a rational man. I don’t have much use for the idea of miracles. Things are what they are, that’s all.
Southern Victory (1997)
Order did not want to be born; chaos wasn’t ready to die.
Southern Victory (1997)
A man who expended power on a whim was a fool.
Southern Victory (1997)