Patricia Sun Quotes
Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!
Sun, Patricia. Quoted in The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women, compiled by Rosalie Maggio, Beacon Press, 1996.
Responding to reporter’s question about colatteral enviornmental damage from the result of bombing and fires.
This description of the Civil War had been widely quoted in that it conveys the inevitability of hostilities between North and South over slavery. Hundreds of compromises, arguments, enticements, were made since the founding of the United State but none or all of them could prevent the conflict over such a basic fundamental as slavery. Note that he coined the term before the war actually took place. The conflict was raging politically, journalistically and culturally.
