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Shiloh showed him what he could ask of his men, and indeed what he MUST ask of them.

Soldiers in foreign camps, so far from being missionaries for good, require missionaries themselves, more than the natives. Andrew Carnegie

Such was the code: Strive for victory, but never seem to be self-involved.

Teain had no difficulty generating the indignation of a satirist. He lack the patience of a reformer.

The fact that California was the most cosmopolitan state in the union, as a result of the gold rush, simply made white voters more susceptible to racist and xenophobic arguments.

The first 10 days of a cattle drive were the most critical, as a stampede was most likely when the cattle were closest to their habitual home.

The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal

The males (of the Hutchinson family that included both religious dissenter Anne and immensely wealthy and politically connected Thomas) were merchants who sought salvation through commerce.

The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along.

Theodore Roosevelt came to Dekota to experience the dying of one age with the slaying of a rare buffalo and the dawning of the West's industrial age.

The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity.

The sight of big ships, of the many new uniforms, at once serious and cool, left Bush with an overall sense of the navy's power and camaraderie and purpose.

The strike spread with the speed of telepathy.

The very lack of explicit pressure was itself a compelling force, for it created a world in which the expectation of success was simply there, a fact of life as basic as breakfast.

This senate was a place where good Representatives went when they died. Thomas Reed

Time after time during the next six months, he would put me together again.

Western farmers were individualists cheifly in their dreams.

When he came in first, he was happy to find all sorts of meaning in the results.

When speculators have once entered Wall Street, they never leave it except in a pine box or a rosewood case, according to circumstances.

William "Boss" Tweed was in such thorough control in New York that he made money off of the report the committee printed after investigating him.