# Quote — Harry Turtledove, The Great War: Walk in Hell

> Something does stink down in Richmond. If we try to root it out now, we are liable to lose the war in the confusion that would follow. But if we don’t try to root it out, we are liable to lose the war from the confusion it causes.

- Author: [Harry Turtledove](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove.md)
- Book: [The Great War: Walk in Hell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/the-great-war-walk-in-hell.md)
- Page: 198
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harry_Turtledove#The_Great_War:_Walk_in_Hell_(1999)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/the-great-war-walk-in-hell/something-does-stink

## More from this book

> Anytime a politician said he wouldn’t beat around the bush, you were well advised to keep your hand on your wallet.

p. 329 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/the-great-war-walk-in-hell/anytime-a-politician.md)

> Whites are so mystified, they put race ahead of class.

p. 384 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/the-great-war-walk-in-hell/whites-are-so-mystified.md)

> “What’s obvious,” Morrell observed, “isn’t always true.”

p. 324 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/the-great-war-walk-in-hell/whats-obvious-morrell.md)