In this
country it's a good thing to kill an admiral now and then to encourage
the others.
Voltaire 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer
The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't
really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually
is: ''he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.''
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
George Washington
O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in
perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.
Walt Whitman 1819-1892, American Poet
Making the world safe for hypocrisy.
Thomas Wolfe 1931-, American Author
Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may
be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under
the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Those that
I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
William Butler Yeats
An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted
army cannot defeat the enemy.
Mao Zedong
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