Jim

“Haupt’s head swam at the thought of dumping this howling mob down on a battlefield. Orders were orders, to be sure, but he was enough of an army man to know that there are ways and ways of rendering obedience. He delayed the train as long as he could; then, when he finally sent it off, he wired the officer in command at Fairfax Station to arrest all who were drunk.”
― Bruce Catton, Mr. Lincoln's Army

“Nazis didn’t go by looks, they went by instructions. Göring had said: “It is I who decide who is a Jew!”
― Upton Sinclair, A World to Win

“But the miracle of the spirit which takes thousands of young men, ties them together in strange self-forgetfulness, and enables them to walk steadfastly and without faltering into the certainty of pain and death was wearing very thin.”
― Bruce Catton, Mr. Lincoln's Army

“We think of technological change as the fancy, new, expensive stuff. But the real change comes from last-decade stuff getting cheaper and faster.”
― CGP Grey