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Dr. Clyde N. Wilson

Old Wisdom for a Decaying America

11/11/2023

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I never see a pen but what I think of a snake. - Bedford Forrest

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is. - Thomas Jefferson

The task of civilised intelligence is perpetual salvage . . . If in making progress you destroy beauty, it is not progress. - William Gilmore Simms

In my experience there are many brave and intelligent women and far too many cowardly and stupid men. - Clyde N. Wilson

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God. - George Washington

… the consolidation of the States into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it. - Robert E. Lee

We will meet them with it [our Southern defiance] again, when it will be heard, in the day of their calamity, in the pages of impartial history, and in the day of judgment. - Robert L. Dabney

…if centralism is ultimately to prevail; if our entire system of free institutions. . .is to be subverted, and an Empire established in their stead . . . then, be assured that we of the South will be acquitted. . . by the judgment of mankind, of all responsibility for so terrible a tragedy. - Alexander H. Stephens

Freedom begins with speaking the truth. - Viktor Orban

There is no defense against ignorance and hatred. - Thomas Fleming

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper. - George Orwell

Facts are better than dreams. - Winston Churchill

The only thing that has saved the United States from Fascism is Southern distrust of central government. - Mort Sahl

Empires do not invade, conquer, and occupy foreign nations to improve the lot of the common people. - James R. Kennedy

I do not see the national flag flying from the staff of the sycamore, or any decree of the government written on the leaves of the walnut. - Wendell Berry

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I am beginning to believe it. - Clarence Darrow

A king that is soft as silk and effeminate . . .and what with the wily tyranny of them that ever rule him, shall be much more grievous unto the realm than a right tyrant. - William Tyndale

You cannot judge the importance of things by the noise they make. - Mr. Chips

Every time Congress makes a joke it’s a law. And every time they make a law it’s a joke. - Will Rogers

You have a greater probability of dying on the way to the polls than of effecting the outcome of an election. - Unknown

They will believe anything about the South as long as it is strange enough. -  Flannery O’Connor

Men can always be blind to a thing, so long as it is big enough. - G.K. Chesterton

The time to buy is when there is blood in the streets. - Baron Nathan Rothschild

We have enjoyed fine dreams; we have dreamed of unifying the world; we are unifying it—against us. - Robinson Jeffers
3 Comments
Katie O’Neal
11/11/2023 05:32:10 pm

Good stuff! I shall save these and post them on social media, selfishly meting them out slowly, one quote at a time, over a period of weeks. Glad you shared.

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Paul Yarbrough
11/12/2023 11:06:49 am

“In my experience there are many brave and intelligent women and far too many cowardly and stupid men”

Dang, Dr. Wilson! You read my mind.

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H. V. Traywick, Jr link
11/12/2023 01:10:08 pm

Clarence Darrow certainly said a mouthful!

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    Clyde Wilson is a distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the University of South Carolina He is the author or editor of over thirty books and published over 600 articles, essays and reviews

    Dr. Wilson is also is co-publisher of Shotwell Publishing, a source  for unreconstructed Southern books. 

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