Rabble in Arms Quotes

“Brother," Cap said, "he's a Pig-nut!"
"Pig-nut?" I asked.
"Pig-nut," Cap repeated. "You can tell a man with brains he's wrong and he'll try to fix things up: but you take and tell a pig-nut he's wrong, and he'll spend the rest of his life trying to have something heavy fall on you when you ain't looking."
- From Kennebunk born Pulitzer Prize winner Kenneth Roberts' 1933 novel Rabble in Arms.”
― Kenneth Roberts, Rabble in Arms

“clear why”
― Kenneth Roberts, Rabble in Arms

“I wish it had been my heart.”
― Kenneth Roberts, Rabble in Arms

“Far off we heard the clatter of hoofs. Arnold went to the window. “Ho!” he said. “Here’s a friend of yours with”
― Kenneth Roberts, Rabble in Arms

“Allen’s Landing ain’t nothing but a little woodchuck-hole of a place, and if we was forced to borrow boats there, or anything else, we might get into trouble, on account of having no other place to go until our borrowing was completed.”
― Kenneth Roberts, Rabble in Arms