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?

- Michael Shaara

Southern women like their men religious and a little mad.

- Michael Shaara

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 …

- Michael Shaara

Home. One place is just like another, really. Maybe not. But truth is it's all just rock and dirt and people are roughly the same. I was born up ther…

- Michael Shaara

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.

- Michael Shaara

Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man's dying?

- 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 …

- 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 it.

- Michael Shaara

There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.

- Michael Shaara