Joker Quote by Michael Shaara

“I tell you, Colonel, we got to win this war. What will happen, do you think, if we lose? Do you think the country…

— Michael Shaara

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

— Michael Shaara

Pickett excused himself, watchful of Longstreet. Pickett was always saying something to irritate somebody, and he rarely knew why, so his method was simply…

— Michael Shaara

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…

— Michael Shaara

“He bent down, scratched the black dirt into his fingers. He was beginning to warm to it; the words were beginning to flow. No…

— Michael Shaara

“The true rain came in a monster wind, and the storm broke in blackness over the hills and the bloody valley; the sky opened…

— Michael Shaara

“I'll wave no more flags for home. No tears for Mother. Nobody ever died for apple pie.”

— Michael Shaara

“To be a good soldier you must love the army. But to be a good officer you must be willing to order the death…

— Michael Shaara

“I don't really understand it. Never have. The more I think on it the more it horrifies me. How can they look in the…

— Michael Shaara

“He was one of those, like Stuart, who looked on war as God's greatest game.”

— Michael Shaara

“There is one thing you can do. You can resign now. You can refuse to lead it. But I cannot even do that. Cannot…

— Michael Shaara

“Then after that I asked this fella what rights he had that we were offendin’, and he said, well, he didn't know, but he…

— Michael Shaara