If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or is a Gurkha. |
I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defense 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. |
He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances; He who preaches and even occasionally practices 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. |