The Name of War Quotes

“Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice,” Montaigne observed”
― Jill Lepore, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity

“As soon as the curious Pequots came within range, the interpreter “pulls up his cock and let fly at one of them, and without question was the death of him.”32 When”
― Jill Lepore, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity

“Can literacy destroy?”
― Jill Lepore, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity

“How do people reconcile themselves to war’s worst cruelties?”
― Jill Lepore, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity