“While soldiers can stand and fight.I can fight and feed them”

“The surest test of discipline is it's absence.”

“It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.”

“You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it.”

“I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.”

“Joanna nodded in agreement, not resisting, not putting up a fight of any kind.”

“I abandon them, I abandon my honour”