Never put new wine into old bottles. You can't say civilization don't advance. For every war, they kill you a new way. There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.
Professional soldiers are sentimental men, for all the harsh realities of their calling.
In their wallets and in their memories they carry bits of philosophy, fragments of poetry, quotations from the Scriptures, which, in times of stress and danger speak to them with great meaning. At last we are eye to eye with death. We must renounce all hopes of freaks and fortunes. Sacrifice to the last drop of blood is demanded of us. Surrender would paralyse and sap our race for generations.