Shenandoah Quotes

Charlie Anderson You run a sad kind of ], mister.  It takes people away when they don't want to go, and won't bring them back when they're ready.

Charlie Anderson What d'you do with ] ]?

Taglines SHAKES THE SCREEN LIKE CANNON THUNDER!

Quotes about the film Stewart uses his vast experience and established screen image as the all-American hero to an advantage in a role, which was made to order as he reached the later phases of his glorious career.  Beginning with his protag's name, Charlie is a classic American hero, played by ], ], and even ], a man initially cherishing isolation and lack of involvement only to be forced into a divisive conflict through circumstances, both ] and ].

Jacob Anderson   They come closer everyday, pa.

Charlie Anderson   They on our land?

Jacob Anderson   No, sir.

Charlie Anderson   Well, then, it doesn't concern us.

Quotes about the film A successful film not just because of the marriage of the right actor in the appropriate genre, but also the timely infusion of challenging questions about a nation at war.

Taglines Two Mighty Armies Trampled Its Valley…A Fighting Family Challenged Them Both!

Charlie Anderson There's nothing much I can tell you about this war.  It's like all wars, I suppose.  The undertakers are winning it.  Oh, the ] will talk a lot about the "glory" of it, and the old men'll talk about the "need" of it—the ], they just want to go home.

Quotes about the film Set in a ] farm during the ], this popular family film offers all-American star ] a classic role, a widower with six sons who initially refuses to takes sides or get involved in the conflict—only to learn otherwise.

Charlie Anderson Lord, We cleared this land; We plowed it, sowed it, and harvested it. We cooked the harvest. It wouldn't be here—we wouldn't be eating it—if we hadn't done it all ourselves. We worked dog-bone hard for every crumb and morsel But we thank you just the same anyway, Lord, for this food we're about to eat. Amen.

Sam     I'll hav'ta leave ya; you know that, don't you?  Do you understand?

Jennie   Do you?

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Jennie   Yes, I'm a ], but I don't see anybody here that I can't outrun, outride, and outshoot.  I'll unstrap for you, papa, and unhook, and I'll even sit here and watch you ride out of sight.

Charlie Anderson   And then what?

Jennie   And then I'll follow.

Charlie Anderson   That's what I thought.

Charlie Anderson   I've got five hundred acres of good, rich dirt, here, and as long as the rains come and the sun shines, it'll grow anything I have a mind to plant.  And we pulled every stump, and we cleared every field, and we done it ourselves without the sweat of one ].

Johnson   So?

Charlie Anderson   "So"!?  So, can you give me one good reason why I should send my family, that took me a lifetime to raise, down that road like a bunch of damn fools to do somebody else's fighting?

Johnson   ] ], Mr. Anderson.

Charlie Anderson   That might be so, Johnson, but these are my sons! They don't belong to the state.   When they were babies, I never saw the state coming around with a spare tit!  We never asked anything of ], and never expected anything.  We do our own living and thanks to no man for the ].  But seeing as how you're so worried about it, I'll tell ya:  If any of my boys thinks this war's right, and wants to join in, he's free to do it.  You all hear that!?  Did you hear it!?  You wanna dress up like these fellas, go ahead; here's your chance. 

Charlie Anderson My corn I take serious because it's my corn, and my potatoes and my tomatoes and fences I take note of because they're mine.  But this war is not mine and I take no note of it!

Quotes about the film When this movie was released in 1965, the ] had just begun, and anti] sentiments had not yet began to swell in America.  ]s, of course, had opposed the war from the start, but at this time, the public sentiment in these united states was generally in favour of deployment.  Thus, the average moviegoer did not draw any connection between this film and the war when it was released.  A few years later, however, antiwar activists looked back on this libertarian western fondly.The antiwar and ] message in this film, however, should be looked upon in a broader context.  The message, after all, is timeless.  All wars really do resemble the description given by Mr. Anderson.  Whether it be the ], the ], or our present wars in ] and ], governments wage them for the perceived benefit of the political class, and they get us to fight for them.  Let us, therefore, dream of a brighter future, a future where property rights are respected and where ]s, insofar as they continue to exist, are so weak and powerless that they cannot compel even one man to fight on their behalf.

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Charlie Anderson I'm not going to kill you.  I want you to live.  I want you to live to be an old man, and I want you to have many, many, many ], and I want you to feel about your children then the way I feel about mine now.  And someday, when a man comes along and ] one of em, I want you to remember!  Okay?  I want you to remember.

Boy Anderson   What's confiscate mean, pa?

Charlie Anderson   ]!

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Charlie Anderson   Now it concerns us.