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Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war. -
Allan Massie
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Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts -- a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments. -
Henry David Thoreau
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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
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History shows that there are no invincible armies. -
Joseph Stalin
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We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother; be never so vile. This day shall gentle his condition. And gentlemen in England now abed shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day. -
William Shakespeare
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The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood. -
Sean O Casey
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The army is the true nobility of our country. -
Napoleon III
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If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England. -
Rupert Brooke
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Valor, glory, firmness, skill, generosity, steadiness in battle and ability to rule -- these constitute the duty of a soldier. They flow from his own nature. -
Bhagavad Gita
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Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking. -
Ambrose Bierce
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The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island. -
Sir William Blackstone
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No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most generous and proudest of all virtues is true valor) and noble in its cause. No utility either more just or universal than the protection of the repose or defense of the greatness of one's country. The company and daily conversation of so many noble, young and active men cannot but be well-pleasing to you. -
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy. -
Mao Zedong
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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
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That's what an army is -- a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. -
Mark Twain
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In this country it's a good thing to kill an admiral now and then to encourage the others. -
Voltaire
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