Gary L. Roberts > Quotes

“Reputation was everything in the Old South. The opinion of others was a measure of inner worth. Virtue, honor, valor, and respect simply did not exist apart from the view of a man in the minds of other men.”
― Gary L. Roberts, Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend

“I fought through the civil war and have seen men shot to pieces and slaughtered by thousands, but the Cherokee removal was the cruelest work I ever knew.”
― Gary L. Roberts, Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend

“It was disagreeable duty at best, taking men from their fields, women from the hearth, and children from play to push them at gunpoint to relocation centers,”
― Gary L. Roberts, Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend