T. J. Stiles Quotes & Sayings

The speed of transportation largely determined the speed of information. — T. J. Stiles

He may have confused honor with with with ruthlessness. — T. J. Stiles

What distinguished him in a moment of crisis was his self-command. — T. J. Stiles

Under standing orders from General Lee, the Army of Northern Virginia enslaved any and all black persons it could seize - in Virginia, Maryland, even Pennsylvania during the Gettysburg Campaign. It made no distinctions between those who had escaped during the war, those born free, or those freed before the war under the laws of Southern states. If they were black, the men in gray took them as property. — T. J. Stiles

A vivid tale of exploration set in a howling, deadly wilderness. — T. J. Stiles

They now endure incessant cultural appropriation by a majority society in the United States that celebrates an idealized American Indian but ignores reservation life - the economic blight and marginalization of what are, in effect, national internment zones, exacerbated by federal inattention and mismanagement. In Indian country there are also thriving cultural traditions and creative genius, but these often receive little more recognition than the problems. - — T. J. Stiles

He did have his beliefs, chiefly in his own genius. — T. J. Stiles

A thin line separates destiny from coincidence. — T. J. Stiles

If he had learned anything from his parents, he learned that business was a matter of relationships. — T. J. Stiles

I worked on my book for about seven years and I had no idea it would be so timely when it was published. — T. J. Stiles

Thanks in large part to reduced transportation costs, San Francisco matured from a dust-blown, mud-lined tent camp with gambling saloons into a brick-walled, warehouse-filled commercial center with gambling saloons. — T. J. Stiles

From New York they traveled on to Washington, a swamp village by comparison. In — T. J. Stiles

Confrontation was the stuff of daily life. — T. J. Stiles

We need to have great wealth and we need to have the critics of great wealth. — T. J. Stiles

The engine of growth is also the engine of inequality, — T. J. Stiles