If anyone tells you he is never afraid, he is a liar or he is a Gurkha.

If anyone tells you he is never afraid, he is a liar or he is a Gurkha.

There will be no withdrawal without written orders and these orders shall never be issued.

What is the next thing you need for leadership? It is the ability to make up your mind to make a decision and accept full responsibility for that decision.

He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a saint, or a mahatma or more likely a humbug but he certainly won't make a leader or for that matter a good soldier

It's nonsense that people join the army to serve the country, like the politicians do it only for the sake of the country.

I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country can distinguish a mortar from a motor; a gun from a howitzer; a guerrilla from a gorilla, although a great many resemble the latter.