Robert L. O'Connell Quotes & Sayings

I wish I were there to watch the operations and changes; but alas! I am in Kansas scratching for a living. — Robert L. O'Connell

That's the way it is with Appian; things that appear ridiculous on average just might have happened, so they cannot be entirely dismissed. — Robert L. O'Connell

it was in defeat more than victory that Polybius saw the essence of Rome's greatness. It — Robert L. O'Connell

Tom Jr. was steeped in Free Soil politics and was now chief justice of the Kansas State Supreme Court. — Robert L. O'Connell

Polybius managed to attach himself to the clan and person of Scipio Aemilianus, grandson of one of the two losing consuls at Cannae, — Robert L. O'Connell

While the morality of slavery alone might have eventually led to a showdown, it was America's sprawling growth that made the issue explosive. — Robert L. O'Connell

He too was experimental and creatively disobedient, but he was still able to operate effectively in a fairly rigid hierarchy - something Americans do particularly well. — Robert L. O'Connell

He wanted to bring up his plan for a retreat, but something told him not to. "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" he opened instead. "Yes," Grant replied chewing on a cigar. "Lick 'em tomorrow, though."75 — Robert L. O'Connell

His descriptions of his own stay in Kansas - now "Bleeding Kansas" to many - were devoid of references to the violence of the nearby Border War. He had blinded — Robert L. O'Connell

Rome, on the other hand, lost - suffering on that one day more battle deaths than the United States during the entire course of the war in Vietnam, suffering more dead soldiers than any other army on any single day of combat in the entire course of Western military history. — Robert L. O'Connell

if you thought like Sherman and there was a nest of treason to be found, Columbia was in your crosshairs. — Robert L. O'Connell

In other words, what we know for sure is entirely limited, and all the rest is basically opinion. — Robert L. O'Connell

better than Sherman. — Robert L. O'Connell