One has indeed personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression… by 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead.” J.R.R. Tolkien

It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.

I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.

I greatly fear some of America’s greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends.

Shun all vice, especially card playing.

Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!