Men cannot be threatened into the kind of fight they will have to put up to win. They will have to be led. - 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.

Honor without intelligence is a disaster. Honor could lose the war.

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.