In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
It began with one act of madness, and it ended with another. John Brown heard history's clock strike in the night and tried to hurry dawn along with gunfire; now John Wilkes Booth heard the clock strike, and he tried… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
Beneath everything else, North and West, there ran a profound, unvoiced, almost subconscious conviction that the [American] nation was going to go on growing-in… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
What began as a bitter dispute over Union and States' Rights, ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in America. At Gettysburg… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines, will meet in infinity,… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery. — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
Shiloh had as many casualties as Waterloo, and yet there were another 20 Waterloos to come. — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
“The end of the war was like the beginning, with the army marching down the open road under the spring sky, seeing a far… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
“Early youth is a baffling time. The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning. It came… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited;… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
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