Quote by Robert M. Gates

Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung

— Abraham Lincoln

“an officer and a gentleman by an act of Congress, but an asshole by choice.” The military also discourages”

— Nelson DeMille

“A general who wages war for a republic whose cause is not just would make devils of soldiers, and turn honor to evil.”

— Christopher Moore

“It's not the generals, it's the civilians who authorise and organise the worst war crimes.”

— Noam Chomsky

“The consequences of committing high treason, if you were a man of the extreme Right, were not unduly heavy, despite the law, and a…

— William L. Shirer

“enrage them and escalate the situation? These weren’t combatants. These were frustrated civilians,”

— Luis Carlos Montalván

“Never in the history of American warfare has this nation witnessed such an exhibition of cowardice, indecisiveness, incompetence, and laziness in the army’s senior…

— Dennis Byrne

“For real men serve their country with random acts of kindness, not vicious acts of violence. And real soldiers have one duty, and one…

— Joss Sheldon

“Soldier don’t act like we is crime and them is order, soldier act like we is enemy and this is war.”

— Marlon James

“For these reasons, the trade of a soldier is held the most honorable of all others, because a soldier is a Yahoo hired to…

— Jonathan Swift

“Relax now. That’s the beauty of war. Utter subservience to one’s leaders absolves a soldier of the consequences of her actions.”

— Alan Campbell

“And I served as an officer in the army.” “Very impressive. I’ve been told that war is boredom interspersed with violence and terror.”

— Julie Anne Long