19 Quotes by Esther Forbes

We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.

How old are you Johnny" she asked. Sixteen." And what's that-a boy or a man?" He laughed. "A boy in time of peace and a man in time of war.

If you can’t do, you’d best shut up about it.

Nobody can make a monkey out of anyone who isn’t a monkey to start with.

After that Johnny began to watch himself. For the first time he learned to think before he spoke.

Most American heroes of the Revolutionary period are by now two men, the actual man and the romantic image. Some are even three men – the actual man, the image, and the debunked remains.

It was sink or swim for him – and happens he’s swimming.

And many of the townsfolk of Boston seem more concerned with the profit of their business than the great cause that is swirling around them.

A man can stand up.