Brinsley Sheridan

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“Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)

“Sure if I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs.”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)

“So here they are, the dog-faced soldiers, the regulars, the fifty-cents-a-day professionals riding the outposts of the nation, from Fort Reno to Fort Apache, from Sheridan to Stark. They were all the same. Men in dirty-shirt blue and only a cold page in the history books to mark their passing. But wherever they rode and whatever they fought for, that place became the United States.”
—Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)