rear quotes

You Americans donot rearchildren, you incite them; you give them food and shelter and applause.

- Randall Jarrell
  Pictures from an Institution, pt.4, ch.10.

Johnson approached a strongly fortified position by outflanking it, or burrowing under it, or surprising the defenders from the rear, or raining down obstacles upon them from the sky, or starving them into submission† Rarely, and then only reluctantly, would he proceed directly from A to B, to him the shortest distance between two points was a tunnel.

-William Raymond Manchester
  Of Lyndon B  Johnson. The Death of a President.