It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.

Civilians are like beans; you buy 'em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy. But you can't buy fighting spirit.

Most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range than we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better - and the vile ones are viler, for that matter.

The moral difference between a soldier and a civilian is that the soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member. The civilian does not.

It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.

Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.

Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.