That night, at supper, someone remarked casually that since… - Michael Shaara

" "
That night, at supper, someone remarked casually that since the army needed ammunition, wouldn't it be proper for the ammunition factory to stay open on Sunday? Most of the officers agreed that it had not yet come to that.

Michael Shaara

Sources available for members. Sign up free to see where this quote comes from

English

Collect this quote

About Michael Shaara

Michael Shaara (June 23, 1928 – May 5, 1988) was an American author of science fiction, sports fiction, and historical fiction. His novel about the Battle of Gettysburg, The Killer Angels, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction during 1975. Shaara died of heart failure in 1988.

All quotes from Michael Shaara Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Michael Shaara:

Stephen E. Ambrose George S. Patton Harry Turtledove Ulysses S. Grant Douglas MacArthur

Additional quotes by Michael Shaara

If the war goes on-and it will, it will-what else can we do but go on? It is the same question forever, what else can we do? If they fight, we will fight with them. And does it matter after all who wins? Was that ever really the question? Will God ask that question, in the end?

General Meade has his son as adjutant. That's different. Generals can do anything. Nothing quite so much like God on earth as a general on a battlefield.

It is unbecoming to a soldier, all this book-learning.

That night, at supper, someone remarked casually that since the army needed ammunition, wouldn't it be proper for the ammunition factory to stay open… - Michael Shaara

About Michael Shaara

Additional quotes by Michael Shaara