No one is going to stick their head out of the trenches for someone they don't respect or trust. You can get shot doing that.
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There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.
Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.
Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.
There is no common sense in going to the field to fight and leaving a man at home to undo all that you accomplish.
At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
You cannot expect soldiers to change people's minds. That has to be done in other ways.
I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.
I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.
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