

“That is why I believe that this coterie of vain mandarins and cowardly politicians stained the honor of my country forever, and I will never forgive them.”
― The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue
― The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue

“When there are no consequences, being wrong is simply a diversion.”
― Saturday
― Saturday

“Twenty-five, he was. Twenty-five tomorrow. Some years the snow had melted for his birthday, but not this year, and so it had been a long winter full of cows.”
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“Whoever he said he was, thought Marsh, he was not from the immigration department, and the web that he was convinced Walsh had been weaving was beginning to unravel with disastrous and dangerous consequences.”
― The Devil's Trinity
― The Devil's Trinity

“In Virginia, North Carolina, and Alabama, interracial coalitions briefly won statewide and would have won more often had elections been fair. African Americans still had the rights of citizenship -- at least formally -- until the 1890s.”
― Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
― Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
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