Skyagusta

“The Puritan, if he had been whipped, would have been a capital secessionist, and as meek, and humble as we could have desired. He would have been the first to make a "perpetual" alliance with us, and to offer us inducements to give him the benefits of our trade. After the first drubbing we gave him, at Manassas, he was disposed to be quite reasonable, and the Federal Congress passed the conciliatory resolution I have quoted in a previous chapter, intimating to us, that if we would come back, slavery should be secure in the States, and our "rights and dignity" remain unimpaired. But as he gained strength, he gained courage, and as the war progressed, and it became evident that we should be beaten, he began to talk of traitors, and treason.”
― Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat: During the War Between the States

“I did not affect to be indifferent to public praise. Such a man is either too good or too bad to live in this world.”
― John S. Mosby, The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby

“The negroes been freed.'

'Well, I ain't.”
― Andrew Lytle, The Velvet Horn

“Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition of the virtues; for modern politics itself expresses in its institutional forms a systematic rejection of that tradition.”
― Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory