There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.
("The Killer Angels")
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Jackson is gone - not entirely gone; Jackson was there today watching, and Ewell sees his eyes - but you cannot blame him for not being Jackson. You must make do with the tools God has given for the job.Michael Shaara
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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.
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I wish we could take the hill. Could flood right on over it and end the war, wipe them all away in one great motion. But we can't. No matter how much I wish...or trust in God...
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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.
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