A group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men. - James A. Michener

If a mate protested this arrogant waste of animal life, he growled: “The seas are endless. There’ll never be a lack of whales or anything else,

And wherever you go on the face of the earth have the humility to think that a thousand years ago someone pretty much like you stood there and a thousand years from now a boy like you will be there. And in two thousand years boys and places and people will have been pretty much the same.

The criminals at the North make us sell our wheat and cotton to Europe at cheap prices, but will not permit us to buy our manufactures cheaply from England. No, they pass a high tariff, keep out cheap European products and force us to buy from Massachusetts and New York at extremely high prices.