Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings.

Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.

In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in it, and over 600,000 men, 2 percent of the population, died in it.

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made

History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.

Like most Rebel soldiers, Sam Watkins owned no slaves.