Shelby Foote Quotes

I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone els...

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

A visitor asked Lincoln what good news he could take home from an audience with the august executive...

Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.

On Lee as commander: "He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to c...

He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on...

We have more to fear from the opinions of our friends than the bayonets of our enemies." Politician ...

I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incident...

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both con...

I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I...

I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.

Right now I'm thinking a good deal about emancipation. One of our sins was slavery, another was eman...

Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from rea...