Colonel James Power

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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)

“The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)

“All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)