“The Little War?How can there bea little war?Are some deathssmaller than others,leaving motherswho weepa little less?”
“Peace would always be less compelling than war. Perhaps that was why there was so little of it in the world. (p. 160)”
“You cannot shoot your way a little bit into a war any more than you can go a little bit over Niagara Falls.”
“Launching a nice little war to divert national attention was a gambit no less appealing to nineteenth-century politicians than it is to their present-day counterparts.”
“Little less than a promise, and a little more than a chance.”
“A little more than kin, a little less than kind.”