All Quotes

"I mentioned Grant's loyalty – remember Harrison, his colored body servant? The whole family hated him, but that did not make any difference, the General always stood at his back, wouldn't allow him to be scolded; always excused his failures and deficiencies with the one unvarying formula, 'We are responsible for these things in his race. It is not fair to visit our fault upon them, let him alone'. ... he was the most lovable great child of the world."

"Grant was a humane conqueror and the benefactor of an enslaved and despised race, a race who will ever cherish a grateful remembrance of his name, fame and great services ... [He] was right towards us."

"Returning home on leave following my second year at West Point, I called on a great-uncle who had joined the Confederate Army at the age of sixteen and had fought in a number of major Civil War battles, including Gettysburg, and had been with Robert E. Lee at Appamatox. My Uncle White was the younger brother of my grandfather. He hated Yankees and Republicans, not necessarily in that order, and talked derisively about both. When I visited, he was seated in a wheel chair, in grudging acquiescence to the infirmities of age. Tobacco juice decorated his shirt and stains around a spittoon on the floor testified to the inaccuracy of his aim. Flies buzzed through screenless windows. "What are you doing with yourself, son?" Uncle White asked. I answered the old veteran with trepidation. "I'm going to that same school that Grant and Sherman went to, the Military Academy at West Point, New York." Uncle White was silent for what seemed like a long time. "That's all right, son," he said at last. "Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson went there too.""

"...a puzzled pathos, as of a man with a problem before him of which he does not understand the terms."

"Digimon Frontier"

"Digimon Data Squad"

"Digimon Fusion"

"No great American has suffered more cruelly and undeservedly at the hands of historians than Ulysses S. Grant. The dominating influence of pro-Southern historians early in the twentieth century—an influence that tainted scholarship on the Civil War for decades—helps to explain Grant's abysmal reputation... A superb modern general who, with Lincoln, finally unleashed the force required to crush the slaveholders' rebellion, Grant went on, as president, to press vigorously for the reunification of the severed nation, but on the terms of the victorious North and not of the defeated South. Given all that he was up against—not simply from Confederates and Southern white terrorists but, as president, from high-minded factional opponents and schismatics from his own Republican Party—it is quite remarkable that Grant sustained his commitment to the freedmen for as long and as hard as he did. The evidence clearly shows that he created the most auspicious record on racial equality and civil rights of any president from Lincoln to Lyndon B. Johnson. He also formulated some remarkably humane and advanced ideas on subjects ranging from federal Indian policy to public education. Given the limitations imposed on executive power by the Constitution, it is all the more remarkable that he acted as boldly as he did."

"There is no difficulty in composing a final evaluation of Ulysses S. Grant. With him there be no balancing and qualifying, no ifs and buts. He won battles and campaigns, and he struck the blow that won the war. No general could do what he did because of accident or luck or preponderance of numbers and weapons. He was a success because he was a complete general and a complete character. He was so complete that his countrymen have never been able to believe he was real...Grant was, judged by modern standards, the greatest general of the Civil War. He was head and shoulders above any other general on either side as an over-all strategist, as a master of global strategy. Fundamentally Grant was superior to Lee because in a modern total war he had a modern mind, and Lee did not. Lee was the last of the great old-fashioned generals, Grant was the first of the great moderns."

"(From) Ulysses Grant’s arrival in the White House in 1869 until Teddy Roosevelt’s ascension in 1901, the presidency was controlled by an unbroken string of pro-business conservatives; under Grant, the Republicans fully embraced the idea of unfettered industrial expansion, and the reign of Republican presidents was interrupted only by Cleveland, the “bourbon” Democrat from New York, who had a similar affinity for laissez-faire economics."

"From Ulysses Grant to William McKinley, the prevailing conservative doctrine was a severe and self defeating laissez faire that left the big fish to eat the little fish while preaching the merits of social Darwinism and the survival of the fittest. Good presidents like Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were those who dared risk the power of government to challenge this."

"Digimon Data Squad: Ultimate Power! Activate Burst Mode!!"

"Digimon Adventure tri.: Reunion"

"Digimon Adventure tri.: Determination"

"Digimon Adventure tri.: Confession"

"Digimon Adventure tri.: Loss"

"Digimon Adventure tri.: Coexistence"

"Digimon Adventure tri.: Future"

"Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna"

"Digimon Adventure 02: The Beginning"

"The primitive mentality is a condition of the human mind, and not a stage in its historical development."

"I very much believe in the influence of magic and the subconscious on the literary process...I think that magic has to do with the subconscious, much as the ancient sorcerers believed. The identification of man with his material surroundings and his active participation in that world are detailed in the books of Carlos Castaneda, for example, as well as, on a different level, with the books of sociologists like Lévy-Bruhl and Ernest Cassirer, or Lévi-Strauss. The magical identification has a lot to do with literature, this alternate way of viewing the world."

"Myth does not set out to give lessons in natural science any more than in morals or sociology."

"Myth therefore seems to choose history, rather than be chosen by it."

"The premise of Wikipedia is that continuous improvement will lead to perfection, that premise is completely unproven…with many of the pieces you don't know who it's written by, and who the administrators are…one of the administrators overseeing the political coverage openly encourages people to vote for John Kerry…30,000 articles were created by a bot [an automated program that goes round causing havoc]…hyperlinks, bulletpoints and cut-and-paste press releases do not an encyclopedia entry make."

"NOTHING RIDES YOU LIKE A GOOD PAIR OF HOT PANTS!" --Pokey, "Pokey Has Hot Pants"

"HOORJ!" --Pokey, "Pokey and Tommy the Toaster"

"“IN THIS MANNER YOU HAVE RETRIEVED YOUR BRAINPAN POKEY!” --Small Child, “Pokey is Roots”"

"YOU SEEM TENSE! WHY NOT RELAX WITH A NICE CIGARETTE? WELCOME TO FLAVOR COUNTRY!" --Pokey, "Chicken Delicious is a Bad Influence"

"THE GLUE IS POURING OUT IN AN AMAZING DISPLAY OF ADHESION - POKEY, "Pokey and the glue""

"THE UN? HA! I SPIT ON THE UN! --Pokey, “Pokey and the Moon-Cheese”"

"“WITH A FEW SMALL MODIFICATIONS, ANY CANOE CAN TRAVEL THROUGH TIME!!!” --Pokey, “Pokey in Ancient Scotland”"

"“I DO NOT LIKE THE HAT!!!” -- Pokey, “The Devil”"

"“BEFORE WE GO TO THE RESTAURANT I MUST ENCASE YOU IN CARBONITE!!! (Throws frozen date into ocean) NOW WHO IS GOING TO THE RESTAURANT!!!” --Pokey, “Pokey Goes to Hawaii”"

"“IT IS ORDINARY DUST! NO SALE” --Pokey, “Hola”"

"(After killing Archangel Michael) “LET ME DO IT I AM A GOOD ARCHANGEL! I ALREADY HAVE THE WINGS AND THE GUN! JUST GIVE ME THE WHISKEY!!!” --Pokey, “Pokey the Archangel”"

"“MY NAME IS POKEY THE PENGUIN I LOVE CHESS!! IT IS LIKE BALLET ONLY WITH MORE EXPLOSIONS!” --Pokey, “All Positions Occupied”"

"“ZIING! THE EXTRA “I” MEANS EXTRA ZING!” --Pokey, “The Extra 'I'”"

"“THE SECRET IS: RUSSIANS KEEP THEIR MIDGETS IN CAGES!” --Pokey, “Po Russky""

"“HE HAD TWO EYES BURNING LIKE COAL-EMBERS, SUNK INTO A GNARLED TREE-TRUNK OF A FACE! HE WAS MORE BURNING TREE THAN MAN!” --Pokey, “I Will Never Forget His Face”"

"“NO ONE TAKES FIRST PASSAGE OVER POKEY!” --Pokey “Pokey and the Gold Chains”"

"“NOTHING EJECTS A TEAR FROM MY FACE SO FORCEFULLY AS A SUNRISE!” --Pokey “Pokey and the Sunrise”"

""I TOLD EVERYONE WE SHOULD HAVE A WITCH-HUNT, BUT THEY WANTED TO HAVE A GOOD OLD-FASHIONED BOOK BURNING INSTEAD!" --Pokey, “Pokey was Correct”"

"“I KNEW WE SHOULDN'T HAVE KEPT THE PILLOW WAREHOUSE RIGHT NEXT TO THE PORN FACTORY!!!” --Small Child, “Hello Sexy World”"

"“I FED HIM A STRICT DIET OF GASOLINE AND IRON FILLINGS! HE'S AS STRONG AS AN OX AND FIVE TIMES SMARTER” --Small Child, “Pokey and the Hover-Chair”"

"“BUT POKEY YOU FOUND THAT BIBLE IN A CRACKERJACK BOX!!! IT HAS A PIRATE ON THE FRONT!!!!” --Small Child, “St. Bluebeard (Biblical Proportions)”"

"“POKEY WHAT FINERY!!!” --Small Child, “Friend, Can You Spare Some Money?”"

"“GHOST MONEY HAS A VERY HIGH EXCHANGE RATE!!” --Mr. Nutty, “Pokey is Solid”"

"“DID ANYONE REMEMBER TO REMOVE HIS WALLET?”(At Pokey's funeral) –Mr. Nutty, “Pokey Dies”"

"“JOHN LOCKE! FANCY YOUR ESCAPING FROM SATAN'S GNASHING TEETH AND ENDING UP HERE!” --Mr. Nutty, “The Root of Safety”"