Richard S. Ewell quotes

Richard S. Ewell quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Colonel Walker, did it ever occur to you that General Jackson is crazy?”
-- Richard S. Ewell

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“We will breakfast together here and dine together in hell.”
-- Richard S. Ewell

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“The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.”
-- Richard S. Ewell

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“A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then the brigadiers, then a bit of a gap and the colonels and wing commanders and passed-over majors, then a steady trickle of captains and lieutenants. As they get older and rarer, so the soldiers are mythologised and grow ever more heroic, until finally drummer boys and under-age privates are venerated and laurelled with honours like ancient field marshals. There is something touching about that.”
“Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.”
“No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.”
“It's fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to the left a bit.”
“I have a really great family, and when Im not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out the garbage, clean my room, all that stuff. My family and my friends keep me in line, and make sure I dont get crazy.”
“Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.”

Source : "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 48), 2000.
“If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding of precious German blood, then surely I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin.”
“In a mad world, only the mad are sane.”
“Mike Walker is the Hemingway of gossip.”
“George Herbert Walker Bush. He was a pretty-pretty great President and anything but.”

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