Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.
When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.
Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught.
War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.
There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigor of a hero.
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
The biggest battles in human history can only ever be seen through the eyes of the bloke on the front line, and that's by definition a very focused view and one that will vary from individual to individual.