Daniel McBain

“Among men who rise to fame and leadership two types are recognizable-those who are born with a belief in themselves and those in whom it is a slow growth dependent on actual achievement. To men of the last type their own success is a constant surprise, and its fruits the more delicious, yet to be tested cautiously with a haunting sense of doubt whether it is not all a dream. In that doubt lies true modesty, not the sham of insincere self-depreciation but the modesty of "moderation," in the Greek sense. It”
― B.H. Liddell Hart, Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American

“that war is war, and not popularity seeking.”40”
― Wesley Moody, Demon of the Lost Cause: Sherman and Civil War History

“The legitimate object of war is a more perfect peace"-this sentence”
― B.H. Liddell Hart, Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American

“the devastation and misery that attend our progress, but that all history teaches us that war, pestilence and famine are the usual order of things by which the Almighty allays the storms of human passion after the long calm of peace.”
― Wesley Moody, Demon of the Lost Cause: Sherman and Civil War History