The ill usage of every minute is a new record against us in heaven.
I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth-right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with.
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
I don't believe there are climate skeptics. I think there are people who indulge in a culture of what can be reduced to Fox network thinking. That has nothing to do with the politics that apply to the protection of quality of life in any sense. It's like talking to a member of a cult.
Shut your eyes and see.
I always have a sense of where I want to end each season, emotionally and relationship wise and with the theme, and I'm always able to hit that.
My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.