Flags on the Bayou

by James Lee Burke

There are some people who have too much faith, and some people who are too brave. Then there’s the kind who are brave and faithful and so stubborn you want to hit them in the head.

There is no equal to poor white trash when they get their hands on a Bible.

We are one people, bound by the same Judeo-Christian beliefs, but incapable of living by our own principles; furthermore, we are incapable of living in harmony

War is a confession of failure, and its perpetrators are the merchants of death, not because they are killers but because they never had the courage to live a decent life.