Wartime Quotes
The quotation was given by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld just prior to the war with Iraq, 2003.
Eggleston was an accomplished writer who had served in the Confederate army of the Civil War. 20 year after the war he wrote a series of articles for the prestigious Northern Atlantic Monthly trying to convey the war from the Southerner’s point of view. Even before the Civil War, there was much less literature and book publishing in the South than the rest of the country. The illiteracy rate of the South was much higher due to the lesser support for public education in the Southern States than in the rest of the country. Even in the 21st century the South was behind the rest of the nation although the gap had closed considerably and Southern writers had become among the best in America.
1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley. Though members of the same Conservative Party, Churchill was a major opponent of Baldwin’s peace and “appeasement” efforts and publicly castigated Prime Minister Baldwin. Yet Baldwin, if he could not stave off war, wanted his critic to serve as Prime Minister if war was inevitable. Churchill never had much respect for Baldwin. See {626930}.
