Quote by James M. McPherson Download Open image ““Governor Beriah Magoffin”” — James M. McPherson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“The people who lead us are of us. We put them in office and we can take them out. America proves that the people… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
“All you had to do was crack up and beg to see the Governor; grovel at his feet and admit to being a dissident;… — H.M. Forester Copy Share Image
“it is not impossible that I could become Governor of this state. Or even President. I would not mind having a horde of sycophants… — L.A. Meyer Copy Share Image
“in writing like this, he was letting truth from beyond time into history, and thus making history the handmaid of posterity and not its… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“A corporate state run by dictators who call themselves servants of the people they enslave.” — Jack Campbell Copy Share Image
“Isn't a governor something you put on a state to keep it from moving ahead very fast?” — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
“Human history is full of great men, great women, individuals, with the will for power - all of them with governesses like her.” — Daniel Nayeri Copy Share Image
“Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer, (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terribly bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch. President?” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Although per capita income doubled during the half-century, not all sectors of society shared equally in this abundance. While both rich and poor enjoyed… — James M. McPherson Copy Share Image
“The truth is, when bullets are whacking against tree-trunks and solid shot are cracking skulls like egg-shells, the consuming passion in the breast of… — James M. McPherson Copy Share Image
“His captors asked why he, a nonslaveholder, was fighting to uphold slavery. He replied: “I’m fighting because you’re down here.”7” — James M. McPherson Copy Share Image
“The casualties at Antietam numbered four times the total suffered by American soldiers at the Normandy beaches on June 6, 1944. More than twice… — James M. McPherson Copy Share Image
“The Civil War was pre-eminently a political war, a war of peoples rather than of professional armies.” — James M. McPherson Copy Share Image
“In cities and factories, the vices of our nature are more fully displayed,” declared James Hammond of South Carolina in 1829, while rural life… — James M. McPherson Copy Share Image
“Not surprisingly, South Carolina acted first. “There is nothing in all the dark caves of human passion so cruel and deadly as the hatred… — James M. McPherson Copy Share Image
