Quotes from John Sedgwick

When you study history, you're really studying yourself. Every bit of history I've uncovered about my own family has some remnant in myself.

They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.

They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...

What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.

They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.

When you study history, you're really studying yourself. Every bit of history I've uncovered about my own family has some remnant in myself.

Marquis de Lafayette

Burr held to the heretical belief, shared only by John Adams in the circle of Founding Fathers, that women were fully the equals of men, just as capable in intellect, just as sensible, and just as deep in feeling.

the inoculation did not confer immunity. It gave him the full-blown disease.