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“ Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home. ”

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Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.

~ Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote Experience Learning Mistakes

A visitor asked Lincoln what good news he could take home from an audience with the august executive. The president spun a story about a machine that baffled a chess champion by beating him thrice. The stunned champ cried while inspecting the machine, There's a man in there!Lincoln's good news, he confided from the heights of leadership, was that there was in fact a man in there.

~ Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote Compassion Fallibility Humility Leadership

He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a stoical indifference to the fright afterward. Jefferson Davis's future wife describing him at first meeting.

~ Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote Candor Fear Humility Stoicism

On Lee as commander: He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to court their favor.

~ Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote Dignity Encouragement Leadership