Jay

“The reason [Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts] doesn't believe in the Bible is because he didn't write it himself.”
― Ulysses S. Grant

“Revolutionaries - true revolutionaries - are aggressive, ruthless, and generally seize the main chance, as William Henry Drayton did when he saw that stump-speaking was getting him nowhere. But defenders of the status quo tend toward caution and legalisms and inaction until it is too late”
― John Buchanan, The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas