James Parton Quotes
It becomes a conqueror to conciliate.
James Parton, 1822–1891, Historian & Biographer, “The Presidential Election of 1800”, The Atlantic Monthly, July 1873
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He was wrong and the Boer War resulted
This slogan was used by the Know-Nothing Party because they would rather continue to accept slavery than plunge the nation into a civil war.
Shlomo ben Yitzchak
He always tried to give the enemy a graceful way to withdraw so the strategic victory could be achieved without a final costly battle.
James Parton was an English-born American biographer who wrote books on the lives of Horace Greeley, Aaron Burr, Andrew Jackson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Voltaire, and the "Eminent Women of the Age".