I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.

Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is... it made us an is.

People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.

Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.

I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.

A rich man's war and a poor man's fight.