“This was one of the casualties of war, that trust itself seemed to die a thousand deaths.”
“Freedom is often the first casualty of war.”
“The first casualty when war comes is truth.”
“If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.”
“A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.”
“The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.”