Selected Quotes from Ron Maxwell

"In the Gulag Archipelago Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote, 'If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.' "

"Historians write about the forces of history, about ideology and determinism. Whatever truth there is in such analysis, it is not the place where individuals live out their lives. Ordinary people like you and me and the characters who inhabit Gods and Generals, Gettysburg or Amazing Grace live their lives day by day, hoping to make the best of it with dignity, trying to lift the suffering from the lives of others - one person at a time, sometimes hoping just to survive. They in their time, like we today, have bonds of affection across racial, religious, sexual, and political divides."