My duty is to obey orders.
Then, Sir, we will give them the bayonet!
Duty is ours; consequences are God's.
Our God was my shield. His protecting care is an additional cause for gratitude.
It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. They do not know its horrors. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.
Sir! Men who desert their comrades in war deserve to be shot! And Officers who intrude for them deserve to be hung!