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“...I would train myself to make my work so mechanical that I could concentrate much of my energy on listening and watching. My knowledge, I believed, would still the voices of despair inside me.”
― Robert Parker, Capitol Hill in Black and White

“For the members of the Lewis and Clark expedition, the suspension of their own mores when they came in contact with the Indian nations was quite the opposite of battle, bringing not horrors, but the guiltless pleasure of a liaison unlike any in the United States- unlike any, because it didn't have to be arranged, induced, concealed, limited, remunerated, or sanctified.”
― Julie M. Fenster, Jefferson's America: The President, the Purchase, and the Explorers Who Transformed a Nation

“To have a standing army. Good God! What can be worse to a people who have tasted the sweets of liberty.”
― Andrew Eliot

“As I watched them I knew I'd probably never be like that.”
― Willy Vlautin, Lean on Pete