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“As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence for the man who has an overpowering dread of solitude.”

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Book:Human Intercourse

Source: Human Intercourse

“The allure of military life and its heroic promise seem indestructible, but nothing threatens the romance of war more effectively than war itself.”

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Book:Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point

Source: Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point

“I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned most of what I know about leadership in the Marine Corps. Certain basic principles stay with you - sometimes consciously, mostly unconsciously.”

Knows Self Sometimes Certain Principles Teach Military Marine Marine Corps Self Sufficiency Sufficiency Basic Principles Military Life

Author:Raymond Kelly

“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”

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Author:Nathan Hale

“The progress of manufactures and commerce insensibly collects a large multitude within the walls of a city: but these citizens are no longer soldiers; and the arts which adorn and improve the state of civil society, corrupt the habits of the military life.”

Art States Cities Progress Military Wall Habit Citizens Soldier Commerce Multitudes Civil Society Military Life

Book:The Collected Works of Edward Gibbon: Historical Works, Autobiographical Writings and Private Letters, Including The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The Collected Works of Edward Gibbon: Historical Works, Autobiographical Writings and Private Letters, Including The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.”

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Book:Barnaby Rudge. Sketches. pt.2

Source: Barnaby Rudge. Sketches. pt.2

“The entrance of the woman with equal rights into practical modern life, her new freedom, her finding herself side by side with men in the streets, offices, professions, factories, sports, and now even in political and military life, is one of those dissolutive phenomena in which, in most cases, it is difficult to perceive anything positive. In essence, all this is simply the renunciation of the woman's right to be a woman.”