Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.

Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.

A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.

I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared.

There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.

Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.

The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast.

To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.

Every battalion has its marching songs.

Leadership is not a raw gift given to a group of people. It is the product of any type of gift everyone one has. It therefore means, any kind of gift is a leadership gift!

You are an old pig!'one of them said to the other. 'And that is worse than being a young one.

Atheist n. A person to be pitied in that he is unable to believe things for which there is no evidence, and who has thus deprived himself of a convenient means of feeling superior to others.

We have far more to fear from swift than from torpid government.

My father's death took me to a place I had never been and a place I had never left. In his absence, I've had to rely more on myself.

I used my pants to illustrate.

You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little.

We should profile Muslims, or anyone who looks like he or she could conceivably be Muslim, and we should be honest about it.

I've never understood why people run to get out of the rain in the summertime... People will drive miles and miles to go jump in a cool swimming hole, but when it rains, they scatter.

And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I'm a beautiful, black butterfly.