A fact is not a truth until you love it.
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. The library is the university.
Before the war, it was said 'the United States are'- grammatically it was spoken that way and thought of as a collection of independent states. And after the war it was always 'the United States is', as we say today without being self-conscious at all. And that sums up what the war accomplished. It made us an 'is'.
I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.
I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.
I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.
Longevity conquers scandal every time.
People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.
The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things.
When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard time. You can't believe how much it's a part of your thinking.
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