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

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

- 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

Soldiers who had been in the army long enough to know what a bloody swindle war really is would begin to feel that army life was really kind of fun, …

- 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

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

- 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

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

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

- Bruce Catton