Michael Shaara Quotes

There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.

If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as foreigner; there were only free men and slaves.

A man who has been shot at is a new realist, and what do you say to a realist when the war is a war of ideals?

Perhaps it was only that when you try to put it into words you cannot express it truly, it never sounds as you dream it.

Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man's dying?

The thing about the heart was that you could not coax it or force it, as you could any other disease. Will power meant nothing.

Southern women like their men religious and a little mad.

It rained all that night. The next day was Saturday, the Fourth of July.

If you are not affected, if you are not hurt by what we do, then you will not do anything to stop it. The war will simply continue.