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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0ca4153 | February 20: Time publishes "Co-Stars," about the Monroe-Olivier matchup." | Carl Rollyson | ||
| ced8663 | I always had the faith that this country would elect those who knew best, who could follow the best course through any situation. | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 2f53101 | We had a tough fight here, but dammit, we're getting the job done. The First and the Twenty-ninth took heavy casualties all day yesterday, and they're still taking them now. | Jeff Shaara | ||
| ebd0121 | care about right now is how long this is | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 0104126 | hatchway with both hands, took a breath, glanced up, across the rows of tanks, half-tracks, and armored trucks moving into line. He watched as the oil trucks moved away, | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 081ea27 | My job is to ... do my job. Lead, for God's sake. Keep my nose out of places where the machine is working, and stick it in deep where it isn't. | Jeff Shaara | ||
| cd35a04 | Goring | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 49471f9 | Vegetables were almost nonexistent, and what passed for meat was either rancid or pure fat. The men were surviving on crackers and moldy flour. Lee was beginning to understand what this meant to the fighting strength of the army. | Jeff Shaara | ||
| e1b49f4 | I did not come into this Army to serve one man, to serve a friend. | honor loyalty maturation | Jeff Shaara | |
| 74f2d54 | armies von Arnim | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 555ad0b | anything that might be | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 750b3b5 | Men with power either trumpet to everyone just how powerful they are, or they use that power effectively by keeping quiet about it, and going about their duties. | Jeff Shaara | ||
| c6a2fa6 | primarily American force would drive north and east | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 2dd146e | To his left he saw the other regiments, men from New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan. Men like these, he thought, just farmers and shopkeepers, and now we are soldiers, and now we are about to die. | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 801b059 | I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting--its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands and fathers....Tis only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded or lacerated...that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation. | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 7951f86 | I always have felt that we are a nation that is very different . . . unique, perhaps. We were founded by thinking men, brilliant men, men who designed a system where conflicts were resolved in debate, where the decision of the majority would prevail. These men had confidence in that majority, they had faith that the design of the system would, by definition, ensure that reasonable men would reach reasonable conclusions, and so we would gove.. | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 1abf6cd | it out of his throat, wiped at the grime | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 575d837 | to occupy the | Jeff Shaara | ||
| eff7b43 | Around him the chorus had begun, great swarms of creatures that he guessed to be insects, frogs maybe, everything else in this infernal country that had a voice. Why night? he thought. They don't say a thing all day long. The sun goes down and they have some kind of contest to see who can croak and buzz the loudest. Just to keep us awake, I guess. Revenge for slapping at them all day, killing their cousins. | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 112dc8f | instructions like he's never been on a field of | Jeff Shaara | ||
| e5e29d1 | the hard look of a man who also understood, who had seen all the stupidity, who knew, after all, that the gold stars were often mindless decoration, that the army was led not by symbols, but by the fallible egos and blind fantasies of men. I | Jeff Shaara | ||
| e1bef16 | Is that not what a commander must do, earn respect, give them discipline and . . . love them? | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 861db79 | Chamberlain | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 8b61ce8 | Newspapers are a great place for cowards and malcontents to have their say. | Jeff Shaara | ||
| bbcdbfb | see the strength of the blue lines in front of them. But it was | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 94de294 | Two things an officer must do, to lead men. This from old Ames, who never cared about love: You must care for your men's welfare. You must show physical courage. Well, | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 3405ec8 | The best way to defend is to attack and the best way to attack is to attack. At Chancellorsville, Lee was asked why he attacked when he was outnumbered three to one. He said he was too weak to defend. --GEORGE PATTON | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 3e0fb68 | with one goal, seeking information of some movement of the enemy, whether anyone was shifting | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 2fe9b83 | worn-out shoes. Few of the men had anything solid on their feet, and the curses toward the supply officers went mostly unheeded by the officers, who had worries of their own. | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 6dae011 | responsibility, had been shifted from the president's weakening shoulders. It was now up | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 97accaf | know | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 9aeec81 | Dammit, you've got a job to do! He tried to pull energy--confidence--from the faces of the others, even from men who had never done this before. | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 12814b7 | He slapped one hand against the breech of the Thompson, slapped again, pulsing frustration, and said aloud, "Dammit!" | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 3990fc1 | No cause that was ever worthy was without its turmoil, its trials, its hopelessness. We are not defeated yet. | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 7e7b702 | knows where he is now. Not here, that's for sure. Hope the Krauts didn't grab him. Buford...Dammit! | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 925d826 | have to know, he thought. I have to get out there and talk to people and see for myself. But there's nothing I can do now, and, dammit, I need some sleep. | Jeff Shaara | ||
| db13f01 | Too far! Dammit, I need a rifle! But his own men were answering, the M-1s close beside him opening up. "I got one! I got one!" Marley's" | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 867b802 | Giraud has changed his mind. | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 110d231 | throwing | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 26f2a03 | A condition of war' exists. | Jeff Shaara | ||
| e6e9e11 | No matter how many times you give the orders, you don't show them that you know damn well what's going to happen next. Doesn't matter if these boys are illiterate mudkickers or college boys. They'll still aim that musket and do their best to kill that scoundrel over there who might be trying to do the same thing back. And afterward, whoever took the better shot goes back to the camps, talks to the new recruits, tells them all about it, and .. | Jeff Shaara | ||
| f3221bc | We got a duty . . . we all got the same duty, all of us, Major." Armistead" | Jeff Shaara | ||
| d380bcb | control of Tunisia, and in both Algeria and | Jeff Shaara | ||
| f75fe59 | I'm not concerned about General Burnside right now. I'm much more concerned with how far Lee will let us go before he does something. | Jeff Shaara |