"The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits." - Henry Louis Mencken

"Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision." - Clark, Blake

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Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy."
- Helvetius

"No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace or insure it victory in time of war." - CALVIN COOLIDGE, speech (1925)

"Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat." - HERMANN GOERING, speech (1936)

"Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier." - SAMUEL JOHNSON, quoted in James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson

"An army marches on its stomach." - NAPOLEON I, attributed

"Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them." - NAPOLEON I, attributed

"Our God and soldiers we alike adore
Ev'n at the brink of danger; not before:
After deliverance, both alike requited,
Our God's forgotten, and our soldiers slighted."
- FRANCIS QUARLES, Emblems

"Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth."
- SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It

"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip, and Germans, no less than other peoples, prepare for the last war." - BARBARA TUCHMAN, The Guns of August

"The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton." - ARTHUR WELLESLEY, DUKE OF WELLINGTON, attributed