Peter Stanton

“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon’s, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other.” —Ulysses S. Grant”
― Anonymous, A Warning

“That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.”
― P.C. Hodgell, Seeker's Mask

“No person recognized this fact better than Winston Churchill, whose nation depended on American intervention in the Second World War. At the time, he wrote, “How heavily do the destinies of this generation hang upon the government and people of the United States…Will the United States throw their weight into the scales of peace and law and freedom while time remains, or will they remain spectators until the disaster has occurred; and then, with infinite cost and labor, build up what need not have been cast down?”
― Anonymous, A Warning

“That was some weird shit,” George W. reportedly said with characteristic Texas bluntness. I couldn’t have agreed more.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened