Whites are so mystified, they put race ahead of class. — Harry Turtledove

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

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

The newspapers extolled every skirmish as one Bonaparte would have admired (clumsy propaganda, in a province that had never reconciled itself to the French revolution), but anyone who believed all the newspapers said deserved nothing better than he got.