Ascending from the consideration of the narrow question of the political and military situation in Kentucky, and the extent of force necessary to redeem the State from rebel thraldom, forecasting in his sagacious intellect the grand and daring operations which, three years afterward, he realized in a campaign, taken in its entirety, without a parallel in modern times, General Sherman expressed the opinion that, to carry the war to the Gulf of Mexico, and destroy all armed opposition to the Goverment, in the entire Mississippi Valley, at least two hundred thousand troops were absolutely requisite.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

As it is therefore merely a question of showing him that he is deceived, that while they pretend to treat him as a man they are really treating him as a child, I shall choose to be always simple but serious and plain in my arguments, so that he may feel that I do indeed treat him as a man.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nothing remains to us but that universal or primary science of which all the arts and sciences are partakers, I mean number or calculation.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

And poor Ivan Matveitch, poor Ivan Matveitch is, so to speak, burning with love for you even in the bowels of the monster.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But give me leave to cite a phrase I met with in my boyish days.
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

I am so attached to this oppressed family that my greatest wish is to make them happy, and perhaps I may be able to do so.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

the Musquetoes are extreemly troublesome this evening and I had left my bier, of course suffered considerably, and promised in my wrath that I never will be guily of a similar peice of negligence while on this voyage.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

For a friend ought not to be disagreeable or unpleasant, nor ought friendship to be a thing high and mighty with sourness and austerity, but even its decorous deportment ought to be attractive and winning, 352 for by it "The Graces and Desire have pitched their tents," 353 and not only to a person in misfortune "is it sweet to look into the eyes of a friendly person," as Euripides 354 says, but no less does it bring pleasure and charm in good fortune, than when it relieves the sorrows and difficulties of adversity.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

If any person is more concerned for government and order, than for the liberties of his country; even he is equally concerned to put an end to this course of indiscriminate support.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

[92] Charles de Lannoy, Viceroy of Naples, wrote the same day announcing the victory to the emperor:— 'Sire,—We gave battle yesterday, and it pleased God to give you victory, which was so well followed up that you hold the King of France a prisoner in my hands.
— from The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria by Eleanor E. Tremayne

The sledge slid along in the midst of a plaintively intense melody.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days. Junior Deluxe Edition by Jules Verne

Each article passed from hand to hand along the table while the auctioneer proclaimed its merits in a loud voice, those standing behind the line of chairs leaning over to look.
— from The Child of Pleasure by Gabriele D'Annunzio

With regard to the frank there are two obvious principles: first, so far as it is a privilege, it must be abolished; and, secondly, so far as it is allowed to remain, it must not be at the expense of the Post-Office, but, like other national services, be paid by the National Treasury.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 18 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

But if he ever got a chance at that white man, if he ever caught him sick or stood at his back when he stumbled and fell on a bush-trail—well, there would be a head that would fetch a price in Malaita.
— from Adventure by Jack London

Why—er—fifty cents a piece is my price to nabobs; an' dirt cheap at that!"
— from Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

are paying in monthly installments, the fine and costs imposed upon them by the Court, and less than five per cent.
— from The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy 1919 (New Series, No. 58) by Pennsylvania Prison Society

At Clonard they were repulsed by a handful of troops well armed and posted; a combined movement always possible in Meath, drove them from side to side during the midweek of July, until at length, hunted down as they were, they broke up in twos and threes to seek any means of escape.
— from A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete by Thomas D'Arcy McGee

It is in that spirit that, one after the other, all the Nations of the Continent, taught by such drastic lessons as Koniggrätz and Sedan, have accepted the lesson, with the result that to-day Europe is an armed camp, and peace is maintained by the equilibrium of forces, and will continue just as long as this equilibrium exists, and no longer.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz