“ If I have become so pathetically dulled that I hold freedom as my right and the privileges of liberty as my due, I can stand beside the stilled graves of a thousand soldiers fallen in defense of freed… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Our best analyst thinks it's not a tactical design. Something for mall ninjas....Young men who dress to feel they'll be mistaken for having special capability. A species of cosplay, really. Endemic. L… William Gibson
“ Among men, it seems, historically at any rate, the processes of coordination and disintegration follow each other with great regularity, and the index of the coordination is the measure of the disinte… John Steinbeck
“ We'd like to think that it is not our fault great men and women died fighting for the security of our nation and safety of our communities. But we know this not to be true. They commited their lives f… D'Andre Lampkin
“ The sergeants are shunted forward and they blink and stare up at Gonzo as he leans on the edge of his giant mixing bowl. MacArthur never addressed his troops from a mixing bowl--not even one made from… Nick Harkaway
“ This revolutionary idea of Western citizenship—replete with ever more rights and responsibilities—would provide superb manpower for growing legions and a legal framework that would guarantee that the… Victor Davis Hanson
“ We'd like to think that it is not our fault that great men and women died fighting for the security of our nation and safety of our communities. But we know this not to be true. They commited their li… D'Andre Lampkin
“ The soldiers had been entrenched in their positions for several weeks but there was little, if any fighting, except for the dozen rounds they ritually exchanged every day. The weather was extremely pl… sadat hasan manto
“ If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity. Sun Tzu
“ The result of these shared experiences was a closeness unknown to all outsiders. Comrades are closer than friends, closer than brothers. Their relationship is different from that of lovers. Their trus… Stephen E. Ambrose
“ We soldiers knew next to nothing about what was going on in the centres of power. We received so many orders and counter-orders that there were times when we did not obey any of them at all, knowing t… Louis de Bernieres
“ This last best luck of all: that earth should gape for me when my great deeds were ended. E.R. Eddison
“ You may hate the war, but never hate the ones that fight. For they do not choose when or where to fight. All they chose was to protect who they love and even the people they don't know. Millie
“ That's a nice song, said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time. It's an old soldiers' song, he said. Really, sarge? But it's about angels. , thought Vimes, As I rec… Terry Pratchett
“ The recruits of 1914 have the look of ghosts. They are queuing up to be slaughtered: they are already dead. Geoff Dyer
