Quote of the Day for 2016-03-16

"The die is cast."

— Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE) While crossing the Rubicon river and thus commencing the Great Roman Civil War. Quoted by Suetonius in The Twelve Caesars, "Julius Caesar," paragraph 32 (121 CE)

Donald Trump announcing his candidacy to the 2016 US presidential election at the Trump Tower in Manhattan (June 16, 2015) Photograph by Brendan McDermid for Reuters

Quote of the Day for 2016-03-11

"I can't die but once."

— Harriet Tubman (1822-1913) Quoted in The Freedmen's Record, March 1865

Murder in Mississippi by Normal Rockwell. Illustration for the "Southern Justice" article in Look magazine (June 29, 1965)

Quote of the Day for 2016-03-03

"What was the reason that induced Georgia to take the step of secession? This reason may be summed up in one single proposition. It was a conviction; a deep conviction on the part of Georgia, that a separation from the North was the only thing that could prevent the abolition of her slavery."

— Henry L. Benning (1814-1875) Speech before the Virginia Secession Convention, February 18, 1861

Slaves of General Thomas F. Drayton (1862) Photograph by Henry P. Moore