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

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Source : Jeff Shaara, Michael Shaara (2012). “The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)”, p.434, Ballantine Books

Michael Shaara

“Marry in haste, repent in leisure.”
“God is the one who chooses our rulers”
“As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.”
“Bismarck's genius, as well as his great flaw, was the same as that of another outstanding nineteenth-century politician of the German-speaking world, Prince Clemens Metternich. Both men were artificers, able to hold off the future by building a fragile present out of pieces of the past.”

Source : Robert D. Kaplan (2014). “Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History”, p.54, Picador
“The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast, Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm, and self-possessed.”
“I'd like to have a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats.”
“But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent!”
“Let your opponent show you how to defeat him”

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