Shelby Foote Quotes About History

Quotes about: History

• People want to know why the South is so interested in the Civil War. I had maybe, it's a rough guess, about fifty fistfights in my life. Out of those fifty fistfights, the ones that I had the most vivid memory of were the ones I lost. I think that's one reason why the South remembers the war more than the North does.

  Shelby Foote

  Memories, War, Loss

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• Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is... it made us an is.

  Shelby Foote

  War, History, United States

• As a Southerner I would have to say that one of the main importances of the War is that Southerners have a sense of defeat which none of the rest of the country has.

  Shelby Foote

  Country, War, History

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