Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.