Unending Battle Quotes



Some others at the time did not see the different theaters of fighting as separate, but observed one commonality of almost all the violent conflict in the world—–Islamic, fundamentalist, extremism. Hence they viewed it as a world war with a singular enemy. Wars rarely ended at the time because most world opinion was against the Draconian degree of destruction and suffering for a people to be so broken that they will not consider fighting again. Cease fires allow the partied to regroup and ready themselves to continue their struggle.


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.


The Cupeno Indians were considered “Mission Indians” and hence were taxed by San Diego California authorities although they had no representation in government nor could they vote. Garra led his people and tried to unite all the Indians of California in an armed uprising against “taxation without representation”. He was found guilty and executed by a firing squad although he has not been terribly different from the New England patriots rebelling against the English.