War never pays its dividends in cash on the money it costs.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails and then asks you not to kill him.

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air.

But who in war will not have his laugh amid the skulls?

Put together a seaman, soldier and airman and what do you get? The sum of all fears.