Thomas B. Allen > Quotes

“Anyone who had ever learned Latin from a Jesuit teacher has heard that word. Imparting a lesson in etymology and ethics simultaneously, Jesuit teachers point out that pusillus meant “very small” and animus meant “soul.” Cowardice is not just a matter of ignoble fear; cowardice shrinks the soul. This is not the Jesuit way.”
― Thomas B. Allen, Possessed: The True Story of an Exorcism

“On July 4 the Continental Congress in Philadelphia voted,”
― Thomas B. Allen, Tories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War

“Today, four to six million Canadians—about one-fifth of the population—claim a Tory ancestor. Many Canadians believe that their nation’s traditional devotion to law and civility, the very essence of being a Canadian, traces back to being loyal, as in Loyalist.”
― Thomas B. Allen, Tories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War

“His principal assistant was David Matthews, the Tory mayor of New York, described by a Tory writer as “a person low in estimation as a lawyer, profligate, abandoned, and dissipated, indigent, extravagant, and luxurious, over head and ears in debt, with a large family as extravagant and voluptuous as himself.”23”
― Thomas B. Allen, Tories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War

“There his tormentors yanked him from the ox’s belly, then reached in to pluck out the beast’s entrails, which they used to whip him about his body and face.29”
― Thomas B. Allen, Tories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War

“Campbell would later complain about “irregulars from the upper country [of Georgia] under the denomination of crackers, a race of men whose motions were too voluntary to be under restraint and whose scouting disposition [was] in quest of pillage.” The crackers, he reported, “found many excuses for going home to their plantations.”18”
― Thomas B. Allen, Tories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War

“The Bristol‘s captain, John Morris, struck several times, stayed on the quarterdeck until his right arm was shot off. He died in a few days.”
― Thomas B. Allen, Tories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War