Rebecca Harding Davis Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.”

“Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.”

“Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North.”

“TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance.”

“We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart.”