Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

- Bruce Catton

Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings.

- Bruce Catton

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida…

- Bruce Catton

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be …

- Bruce Catton

A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.

- Bruce Catton

There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a mask, it can display itself suddenl…

- Bruce Catton

Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning. It came out of wh…

- Bruce Catton

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to…

- Bruce Catton

Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recogn…

- Bruce Catton