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“You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about.
War is a terrible thing! You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it 鈥� Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth 鈥� right at your doors.
You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see in the end that you will surely fail.”
― William T. Sherman

“Just calling one's practice "approach and accomplishment" and staying in retreat for years will produce nothing but hardship. Completing hundreds of millions of mantras will not even bring the warmth of the ordinary qualities that mark one's progress on the path! In other words, if the essential points of the path are not taken into account, perseverance will amount to nothing more than chasing a mirage.”
― Patrul Rinpoche, Deity Mantra and Wisdom: Development Stage Meditation in Tibetan Buddhist Tantra

“Na bestudering van documenten uit de jaren 1860 waarin slavernij zowel werd verdedigd als veroordeeld, kan ik alleen maar zeggen dat ik nog nooit een hedendaagse bron heb gelezen waarin het onderwerp op een dergelijke manier werd ontleed, zowel op theologische, morele als wetgevende gronden. Het is duidelijk dat de generatie van 1860 beter, slimmer en moreler was dan de onze.”
― Isaiah Senones

“Similarly, the nation鈥檚 top wealth holders in 1860 had tended to be its major slaveholders. In total, the United States in 1860 had about four million slaves, and on the open market they were worth at least three billion dollars. That was roughly three times the amount of capital invested in manufacturing, three times the amount invested in railroads, seven times the amount invested in banks, and forty-eight times the amount the federal government spent that year. Only the nation鈥檚 real estate was more valuable.”
― Leonard L. Richards, Who Freed the Slaves?: The Fight over the Thirteenth Amendment