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Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade. - Philip James Bailey The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits. - Henry Louis Mencken Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils. - William Shakespeare God's soldier be he! Had I as many sons as I have hairs, I would not wish them to a fairer death: And so his knell is knoll'd. - William Shakespeare May that soldier a mere recreant prove That means not, hath not, or is not in love! - William Shakespeare All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall. - Harry S. Truman No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. - Rev. Charles Wolfe
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