Quotes from Southern Victory — Harry Turtledove
born 1949 United States
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The Confederate States had been founded on the principle that change was a bad idea.
The only people who love a war are those who have never fought in one.
A man who couldn’t see truth when it tried to shoot him wouldn’t live long, and didn’t deserve to.
You can have as much fun in a library as you can at the cinema, and it doesn’t cost you anything.
A fisherman who wasn’t a born pessimist hadn’t been going to sea long enough.
During a war, nobody ever showed up on time, except possibly the enemy.
They’d kill him or he’d kill them. War reduced everything to a brutal simplicity.
The difference between bad and worse is a lot bigger than the difference between good and better.
Poffenberger eyed Pound the way a man wearing a suit made of pork chops might eye a nearby bear.
Hardly anything is more pleasant than talking about why other people are a pack of damn fools.
Courage and the goodness of one’s cause, unfortunately, do not always go hand in hand.
As happened too often in politics, never turned out not to be so very long after all.
Some people, though—some people think yelling something loud enough makes it so.
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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Harry Turtledove (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.