Edwin S. Grosvenor > Quotes

“Buchanan declared that the will of the people should determine the issue of slavery,”
― Edwin S. Grosvenor, The Best of American Heritage: The Civil War

“confirmed Lincoln’s view that”
― Edwin S. Grosvenor, The Best of American Heritage: Lincoln

“But his greatest work, already begun in the opening years of his reign, was the recodification of Roman law. In a series of volumes, collectively known as the Codex Justinianus, the primary rules of social existence as defined by Roman law were reformulated in accordance with the Christian ethic.”
― Edwin S. Grosvenor, The Middle Ages

“local rotgut whiskey described as “kinder a cross between a circular saw and a wild cat.”
― Edwin S. Grosvenor, The Best of American Heritage: The Old West