Quotes by James Jones

“They shouldnt teach their immigrants' kids all about democracy unless they mean to let them have a little bit of it, it ony makes for trouble. Me and the United States is dissociating our alliance ...”

“I like it too," Angelo said. "I love this country. Much you and anybody, and you know it.""I know it," Prew said."But I still hate this country. You love the Army. But I dont love the Army. This co...”

“He could not blame the Army, Angelo could blame the Army; Angelo hated the Army. But he didnt hate the Army, not even now. He remembered what Maureen had told him once that it was the system that w...”

“It takes courage to stand for what you believe in.”

“Some day...as you grow older, you will find imagination sometimes produces a truth that is greater than any fact.”

“Of all the things I dislike, I hate women worst.”

“Did you ever hear the one about how every living woman dies three times? Once when she is seduced of her virginity, once when she is seduced of her freedom (I believe they call it marriage), and on...”

“...homosexuality is the direct result of chastity in women.”

“...the quickest, efficient, least expensive way to educate a man is to make it painful for him when he is wrong, the same as with any other animal.”

“Weary looked at him and shook his head and put the tailgate up and drove down the gravel towards the bivouac, carrying two drunks, who both fatuously imagined, that once in a dream somewhere, somet...”

“But he had always believed in fighting for the underdog, against the top dog. He had learned it, not from The Home, or The School, or The Church, but from that fourth and other great moulder of soc...”

“He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally.”

“The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it.""But it'd be there.”