Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Ancien régime.

“We must admit…that we are …Bourbons.”
Baton Rouge Mayor Leon Jastremski, 1882

He said it as though it was a compliment.

Source (PDF).

Friday, May 19, 2017

Monumental

"I think it wisest not to keep open the sores of war, but to follow the example of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, and to commit to oblivion the feelings it engendered." - Robert E Lee