Stonewall Jackson Quotes

A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead.

Weapons means killing. Weapons is ah, I'm simply sensitive to the word.

Then, Sir, we will give them the bayonet!

... merely another weapon.

I remember every moment of every gunfight I've ever been in.

War is delightful for those who don't know it

Fifteen millions of soldiers with popguns and horses All bent upon killing, because their "of courses" Are not quite the same.

The Guns, Thank God, The Guns.

War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.

War is the father and king of all.

Wars are to be won with swords and spears, not with rice and salt.

The bullet is a fool, the bayonet is a fine chap.

To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.

In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.

Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.

I like war.

War is the science of destruction.

While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.

In big battle scenes, like 'King Arthur', you see the knights in all their fine armour, but they're not in the thick of it: follow the perspective, and you'll find some poor little sod, who didn't want to be there, anyway, with his head split.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.

War is the trade of Kings.

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.