It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it. – Robert E. Lee
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In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came. – Jefferson Davis
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. – Ernest Hemingway
And Im a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. Thats the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War. – Shelby Foote
I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe. – Ken Jenkins