Robert L. O'Connell Quotes

#1. I wish I were there to watch the operations and changes; but alas! I am in Kansas scratching for a living.

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#2. He wanted to bring up his plan for a retreat, but something told him not to. "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" he opened instead. "Yes," Grant replied chewing on a cigar. "Lick 'em tomorrow, though."75

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#3. That's the way it is with Appian; things that appear ridiculous on average just might have happened, so they cannot be entirely dismissed.

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#4. Tom Jr. was steeped in Free Soil politics and was now chief justice of the Kansas State Supreme Court.

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#5. While the morality of slavery alone might have eventually led to a showdown, it was America's sprawling growth that made the issue explosive.

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#6. He too was experimental and creatively disobedient, but he was still able to operate effectively in a fairly rigid hierarchy - something Americans do particularly well.

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#7. it was in defeat more than victory that Polybius saw the essence of Rome's greatness. It

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#8. Polybius managed to attach himself to the clan and person of Scipio Aemilianus, grandson of one of the two losing consuls at Cannae,

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#9. if you thought like Sherman and there was a nest of treason to be found, Columbia was in your crosshairs.

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#10. Rome, on the other hand, lost - suffering on that one day more battle deaths than the United States during the entire course of the war in Vietnam, suffering more dead soldiers than any other army on any single day of combat in the entire course of Western military history.

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#11. His descriptions of his own stay in Kansas - now "Bleeding Kansas" to many - were devoid of references to the violence of the nearby Border War. He had blinded

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#12. In other words, what we know for sure is entirely limited, and all the rest is basically opinion.

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#13. better than Sherman.

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