Even before the expansion of slave labor in the South and into the West, slavery was already an important source of northern profit, as was the already exploding slave trade in the Caribbean and South America. Banks capitalized the slave trade, and insurance companies underwrote it.
Category Archive: Quotes by Historians
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.
I was planning to stay in the Army all my life, but I ended up being posted to a training camp in Wales and was so bored there, I wrote a novel.
Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don’t fight war on our soil, we don’t have direct experience of it, so there’s an openness about the meanings we give to it.
Really, I don’t like to do any household chores. There was a time when I loved to cook, but that was when I wasn’t writing books.
Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.
Albert Camus’s ‘La Peste’ – ‘The Plague’ – had an enormous impact on me when I read it in high school French class, and I chose my senior yearbook quote from it. In college, I wrote a philosophy class paper on Camus and Sartre, and again chose my yearbook quote from ‘La Peste.’
I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.