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The North and South Trilogy: North and South / Love and War / Heaven and Hell (North and South, #1-3) QUOTES

The North and South Trilogy: North and South / Love and War / Heaven and Hell (North and South, #1-3) QUOTES

1 " Is it because they all testify that we are never guaranteed a happy life, only life itself? … "

― John Jakes , The North and South Trilogy: North and South / Love and War / Heaven and Hell (North and South, #1-3)

2 " His younger brother looked to him for advice—wisdom—never realizing that older people were almost as uncertain of everything as Billy was, if not more. "

― John Jakes , The North and South Trilogy: North and South / Love and War / Heaven and Hell (North and South, #1-3)

3 " Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever. "

― John Jakes , The North and South Trilogy: North and South / Love and War / Heaven and Hell (North and South, #1-3)

4 " an army of incompetents, poltroons, political cronies, and victims—always there are the victims whom the others send to slaughter in their stead— "

― John Jakes , The North and South Trilogy: North and South / Love and War / Heaven and Hell (North and South, #1-3)

5 " No, sir. But even if they are, I’m inclined to go with them.” “For God’s sake, man—why?” The foreman peered at Cooper as if he were callow, not very bright. “South Carolina is my home. Those men speak up for it. No one else does, Mr. Main. "

― John Jakes , The North and South Trilogy: North and South / Love and War / Heaven and Hell (North and South, #1-3)

6 " emancipation "

― John Jakes , The North and South Trilogy: North and South / Love and War / Heaven and Hell (North and South, #1-3)

7 " Every colored person in this country is enslaved to the fears of whites and to the way those fears influence white behavior. "

― John Jakes , The North and South Trilogy: North and South / Love and War / Heaven and Hell (North and South, #1-3)

8 " I find it a pity that freedom to disagree was not tolerated here today.” Cooper "

― John Jakes , The North and South Trilogy: North and South / Love and War / Heaven and Hell (North and South, #1-3)

9 " to err is human, to forgive, divine.” “You like Shakespeare, do you? "

― John Jakes , The North and South Trilogy: North and South / Love and War / Heaven and Hell (North and South, #1-3)

10 " I’m not sure it’s altogether right to encourage and reward fighting and killing, but that’s the way things are. "

― John Jakes , The North and South Trilogy: North and South / Love and War / Heaven and Hell (North and South, #1-3)

11 " Trouble was, when you refused to learn, the result was what surrounded the rumbling wagon: soured earth; abandoned homes; imperiled lives. Ruin. "

― John Jakes , The North and South Trilogy: North and South / Love and War / Heaven and Hell (North and South, #1-3)

12 " you didn’t "

― John Jakes , The North and South Trilogy: North and South / Love and War / Heaven and Hell (North and South, #1-3)

13 " Yet how strong was friendship? Could it banish disagreement over a fundamental issue of human liberty—as if the issue and the disagreement didn’t exist? "

― John Jakes , The North and South Trilogy: North and South / Love and War / Heaven and Hell (North and South, #1-3)