Famous Quotes | Forty years after a battle it is...
Forty years after a battle it is easy for a noncombatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another thing personally and under fire to have to direct the fighting while involved in the obscuring smoke of it.
- Herman Melville
Attribution: Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Billy Budd, Sailor (posthumous), ch 21, eds. Harrison Hayford and Merton M. Sealts, Jr. (1962). A sham quotation.
Categories: Author, Battles, Hindsight
