A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.
Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings.
The 1860 election became a referendum on the southern way of life.
Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.
The Confederate Constitution was almost identical to that of the United States.
Like most Rebel soldiers, Sam Watkins owned no slaves.