If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynIf... if... We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! ........... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynShould one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn