Quotes for My Brother Sam is Dead

"war turns men into beasts. It's cheaper to shoot a boy than to feed him."

Said Mother

"God meant man to obey. He meant children to obey their father, he meant men to obey their king"

Said Mr. Beach, the Reading minister, is definitely on the Tory side. He thinks everyone should do their duty to their country, and that's that. Check out how Mr. Beach uses the same sentence structure to talk about obeying fathers and obeying kings. It's almost like fathers and kings are two different kinds of rulers.

"I could make a surveyor out of him if he'd apply himself. Perhaps I might take him on as an apprentice in a year or two, once he's learned to cipher"

Said Mr. Heron as he tried to convince Life to let Tim become a surveyor

"My duty to my country comes first"

Said Sam

" I keep thinking that there might have been another way, besides war, to achieve the same end."

Said Tim