The red badge of courage Quotes

“Camp fires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night.”

“It appeared that the swift wings of their desires would have shattered against the iron gates of the impossible.”

“The moon had been lighted and was hung in a treetop.”

“A man with a full stomach and the respect of his fellows had no business to scold about anything that he might think to be wrong in the ways of the universe, or even with the ways of society. Let the unfortunates rail; the others may play marbles.”

“A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer.”

“It was not well to drive men into final corners”