"In war the heroes always outnumber the..." - Quote by H L Mencken

“No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.”

“The State doesn't just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.”

“There is no record in human history of a happy philosopher: they exist only in romantic legend.”

“Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.”

“When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes are made like other men.”

“What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of adventure, you are called to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: do I dare? And then if you do dare, the dangers are there, and the help also, and the fulfillment or the fiasco. There's always the possibility of fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.”

“The Army, as usual, are without pay; and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and though the patience of them is equally threadbare, the States seem perfectly indifferent to their cries.”

“Give me enough medals and I’ll win you any war”

“You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.”