Bruce Catton Quotes

• Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

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  Baseball, America, League

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• La Guerra Civil se libró en 10.000 lugares, desde Valverde, Nuevo México, y Tullahoma, Tennessee, hasta St. Albans, Vermont, y Fernandina, en la costa de Florida. Más de 3 millones de estadounidenses lucharon en ella, y más de 600.000 hombres, el 2 por ciento de la población, murieron en ella.

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  Guerra, Lucha, Hombres

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• To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.

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  Learning, Knowledge, Important

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• History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.

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  Real, Long, History

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• Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made

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  Moving, Journey, Imagination

  Bruce Catton (1987). “Waiting for the Morning Train: An American Boyhood”, p.39, Wayne State University Press

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• Una cierta combinación de incompetencia e indiferencia puede causar casi tanto sufrimiento como la malevolencia más aguda.

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  Stupidity, Suffering, Causes

  Bruce Catton (1984). “Bruce Catton's Civil War: three volumes in one”, Outlet

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• A singular fact about modern war is that it takes charge. Once begun it has to be carried to its conclusion, and carrying it there sets in motion events that may be beyond men's control. Doing what has to be done to win, men perform acts that alter the very soil in which society's roots are nourished.

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  Paz, guerra, victoria

  Bruce Catton (1985). “The Civil War”, p.173, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a mask, it can display itself suddenly with terrifying effect.

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  Running, Rowdy, Apes

  Bruce Catton (2011). “This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War”, p.3, Vintage

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• Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning. It came out of what men were, but it did not go as men had planned.

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  War, Moving, Greatness

  Bruce Catton, James M. McPherson (1960). “The Civil War”, p.275, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings.

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  Time, Victory, Progress

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• Y ahí está el faro, brillando a lo largo de la vía, reflejándose en los raíles de acero que, como todas las líneas paralelas, se encontrarán en el infinito, que es después de todo adonde se dirige este tren.

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  Track, Shining, Steel

  Bruce Catton, Oliver Jensen (1993). “Bruce Catton's America: Selections from His Greatest Works”, Promontory

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• The enduring realization that when a great challenge comes, the most ordinary people can show that they value something more than they value their own lives. When the last of the veterans had gone, and the sorrows and bitterness which the war created had at last worn away, this memory remained.

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  Memories, War, People

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• What a general could do, Thomas did; no more dependable soldier for a moment of crisis existed on the North American continent, or ever did exist... Thomas comes down in history as the Rock of Chickamauga, the great defensive fighter, the man who could never be driven away but who was not much on the offensive. That may be a correct appraisal, Yet it may also be worth making note that just twice in all the war was a major Confederate army driven away from a prepared position in complete rout - at Chattanooga and at Nashville. Each time the blow that routed it was launched by Thomas.

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  War, Army, Blow

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• 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 with gunfire to restore the darkness. Each man stood outside the human community, directed by voices the sane do not hear, and each kept history from going logically... The line from Harper's Ferry to Ford's Theater is a red thread binding the immense disorder of the Civil War into an irrational sort of coherence.

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  Guerra, Noche, Hombres

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• What began as a bitter dispute over Union and States' Rights, ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in America. At Gettysburg in 1863, Abraham Lincoln said perhaps more than he knew. The war was about a new birth of freedom.

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  War, Struggle, Rights

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• Incluso la historia más minuciosa es un puente sobre un misterio eterno.

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  Bridges, History, Scrapbooking

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• Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.

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  Sunset, Eye, Glowing

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• Nathan Bedford Forrest ... used his horsemen as a modern general would use motorized infantry. He liked horses because he liked fast movement, and his mounted men could get from here to there much faster than any infantry could; but when they reached the field they usually tied their horses to trees and fought on foot, and they were as good as the very best infantry. Not for nothing did Forrest say the essence of strategy was to git thar fust with the most men.

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  Caballo, Guerra, Hombres

  Bruce Catton, James M. McPherson (2014). “American Heritage History of the Civil War”, p.105, New Word City

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• Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers - if only to become the kind of country that could no longer conceive of how that was possible.

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  Country, War, Numbers

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• Men see things late, and it may be that at times an evil fate drives them on.

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  Destino, Hombres, Mal

  Bruce Catton (2011). “This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War”, p.14, Vintage

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• 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 night train

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  Morning, Night, Differences

  Bruce Catton (1987). “Waiting for the Morning Train: An American Boyhood”, p.39, Wayne State University Press

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• Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.

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  Spirit, Dignity, Defeat

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• Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recognize a revolutionary situation when he saw one, and he could act fast and ruthlessly to meet it.

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  Understanding, Saws, Patient

  Bruce Catton (2011). “This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War”, p.27, Vintage

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• Shiloh had as many casualties as Waterloo, and yet there were another 20 Waterloos to come.

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  War, History, Casualties

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• Creo que, inconscientemente, siempre me ha movido el intento de reafirmar esa fe y mostrar dónde estaba bien cimentada, cómo surgió de lo que muchos jóvenes de ambos bandos sintieron y creyeron y fueron lo suficientemente valientes como para hacer...".

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  Hombres, Pensamiento, Valentía

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