You cannot change what you are, only what you do.
Southern women like their men religious and a little mad.
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.
There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.
I've been a soldier all my life. I've fought from the ranks on up, you know my service. But sir, I must tell you now, I believe this attack will fail. No 15,000 men ever made could take that ridge. It's a distance of more than a mile, over open ground. When the men come out of the trees, they will be under fire from Yankee artillery from all over the field. And those are Hancock's boys! And now, they have the stone wall like we did at Fredericksburg. - Lieutenant General James Longstreet to General Robert E. Lee after the initial Confederate victories on day one of the Battle of Gettysburg.
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.
Our goal is to work against things we have not seen that we will see in the near future.
Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.
On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.