Why are they going to disappear him?'I don't know.'It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.

All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.

Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office.

They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.

-You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!

Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt...

But Yossarian knew he was right, because, as he explained to Clevinger, to the best of his knowledge he had never been wrong.

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

I'm not just building a foundation or a house with the bricks people throw at me. I'm building entire worlds. it's called writing.

A body of 500 men chosen at random from amongst the unemployed.

If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.

If you go to Gettysburg and take the time, maybe take a tour, maybe just drive around, read some of the monuments, read some of the plaques, you will come away changed.

A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.

Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.

I am a man of parliament, a man of the people. I am not a representative of the executives.

There is thing you can do but I can not and there is thing I can but you can not; so let us make something beautiful together

Only as strong as our love for this land, only as tall as we stand.