Quotes from Jeff Shaara

As long as there are armies, there will be a war. I don't care about symbols.

No cause that was ever worthy was without its turmoil, its trials, its hopelessness. We are not defeated yet.

Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war and my fingers to fight Ã¢â'¬Â¦ touch the mountains and they shall smoke Ã¢â'¬Â¦ He had memorized that verse years before, Psalm 144, knew somehow, strangely, that it was for him, that God had put those words there as a sign, words to guide him to his duty.

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.

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.

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out and meet it. THUCYDIDES

A condition of war' exists.

Those who lead the rebellion are trying to prove a point … a point that we are not one nation, that we are a group of separate countries, we are Maine, and Vermont, and Virginia and Georgia and Texas and New York … and that if any one of us disagrees with the policies of the Federal government, we have the right to erase whatever binds us together, disregard the existence—or the importance—of the Union.

An old man learns that time is short. If I do not speak my mind while I am able Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well, death provides ample time for silence. It

We got a duty . . . we all got the same duty, all of us, Major." Armistead

Sometimes I have to explain to those jarheads what 'marine' stands for: Muscles Are Required, Intelligence Not Essential. Just

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

The world around him grew silent; there was something in the air. The odor of dead meat came down on the wind, drifting through the trees. Soft and sour, the smell of distant death.

Rommel was convinced that the mind of the British commander was his enemy's greatest weakness.

so the first inclination of the uncertain is to accept that which seems easy.

He thought of his father's word, careful. A careful flyer is a defensive flyer, and a defensive flyer will shoot down no one. No, Father, you do not kill your enemy by being careful.

control of Tunisia, and in both Algeria and

it out of his throat, wiped at the grime

to occupy the

Saw groups of men, some huddled in intense conversation, others waving big cigars, broad-chested men with loud voices, proclaiming their opinions with the mindless flourish of those who share no responsibility for the consequences of their grand ideas.

And right now, we are not prepared for anything. That could have deadly consequences in this world.

Weakness invites aggression. I truly believe that, and I truly believe we are dangerously weak.

of us, by this new type of system, a system where our conflicts and differences would be resolved by civilized means. There is no other system like this, anywhere. And if this war is lost . . . if the rebellion is successful, it is possible there may never be another.

instructions like he's never been on a field of