Chris

“A French writer once observed that, "in the new colonies, the Spanish start by building a church, the English a tavern, and the French a fort.”
― Rick Atkinson, The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

“Olive always found faces revealing. Still - the bovine nature of this girl was baffling. Was Ann a bit stupid? Olive had taught school enough years to know that large amounts of insecurity could take the form of stupidity.”
― Ann Strout

“Harry Truman used to talk of Potomac Fever, an endemic disorder the symptoms of which were a swelled head and a general decline of common sense.”
― David McCullough, Brave Companions: Portraits in History

“He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.”
― Winston Churchill