You have been going on about pride like it was a bad thing, and I disagree with you. A man’s pride is about the only thing he has that’s worth having, and is what sets him apart from the pack. We have argued this before, Judge, and I guess I will say this time that a man that doesn’t have it is a pretty poor specimen and apt to take to whisky for the lack. For all whisky is, is pride you can pour in your belly.

Cussing your daddy when he is crippled so he can’t beat your teeth down your throat for it. Well, it is sire and dam in a man like a horse, and no way to get yourself a boy without there is half woman in him.

The retreating slow crack of Blaisedell's bootheels had been a sound as lonely, and as fatal.

Hate can burn itself out in the first light of day as readily as love can.

the only means by which field-grade officers can expect a promotion is combat.

Is not the semblance of guilt, however slight the tinge, already a corruption?

Any man who has got himself set over others and don't have any responsibility to something bigger than him is a son of a bitch.