All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way-if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy.

It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.

Your war memories will be with you forever, you'll be asked about them thousands of times after the war is over. People will get their respect for you from tha…

Naturally I don't believe books and I don't believe teachers, but I do believe-it's important for me to believe you [Gene]. Christ, I've got to believe you, at…

The ability of a country to wage war is not an accurate measure of its strengths, but of its fears.

For all we have and are, For all our children's fate, Stand up and take the war. The Hun is at the gate!

She might be protective and possessive with her children whom she thought of as needing her, but with the people she needed, she was the opposite. If she feare…