"Joshua Chamberlain: Maine's Favorite Son"

"One good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have declared you legally insane in order to gain control of your estate."

"Dearest wife, let us go on and faint not; something of ours is in heaven besides the flesh of our exalted Saviour, and we go on after our own."

"Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity."

"One of my favorite quotes is from Hemingway, who said, "Never persuade yourself that war, no matter how necessary, is not a crime." … It is. Sometimes it's necessary, but it's always awful, and that's…"