Nancy Ellis

“It would slowly become evident that when they committed themselves at last to secession, not as a threat but as an accomplished fact armed for violence, the devoted men who wanted to preserve the Southern way of life had made a tactical error. The ultimate fate of their cause would be largely determined by what was done in Washington. Leaving Washington forever, they had fatally surrendered the initiative. Now their enemies would seize it.”
― Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury

“So in your world everyone lies, and everyone's corrupt?"

"It is called the diplomatic service.”
― Bernard Cornwell, Sharpe's Fury: The Battle of Barrosa, March 1811

“Armistice Day isn't to do with peace. It's to do with war and remembering one's dead. A nation that can't remember its dead will soon cease to be worth dying for.”
― P. D. James

“We are spiritual beings. But for many of us, malnutrition of the soul is a plague of modern life.”
― Timothy Egan, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith