“Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.”
“If not for Death, they’d be content to simply exist, but with Death, well, their lives will have meaning — a boundary beyond which the living cannot cross.”
“I often wondered why men will risk almost certain death in an attempt to save other men. I decided it was because men will do anything to give their lives some meaning and virtue.”
“Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.”
“If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.”
“There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.”