Colonel Harris

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“I am asked if I would not be gratified if my friends would procure me promotion to a brigadier-generalship. My feeling is that I would rather be one of the good colonels than one of the poor generals. The colonel of a regiment has one of the most agreeable positions in the service, and one of the most useful. “A good colonel makes a good regiment,” is an axiom.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

“A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.”
—Sydney J. Harris (b. 1917)