“I'm not out of touch with reality;I've just got my eyes on eternity.”

“I've got to be first all the time — in everything.”

“The advance of human technology is cummulative, but human wisdom dies with each generation.”

“Rarely," said Dax to himself, "does a soldier see with naked eyes. He is nearly always looking through lenses, lenses which are made of the insignia of his rank.”

“I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me… but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.”

“Because I want to see. I've got to know what's going to happen while I'm still enough in control to be able to do something about it.”

“Silly…but the mere issuing of a command always inspires confidence. It doesn't matter whether it is a necessary command, or even a correct one…it inspires self-confidence even in the man who issues it.”