When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.
The colonel banned confusion on Monday, then appointed three officers to define it, four to deny it, and one to punish anyone who understood the order.
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
They promised him liberty after obedience, but every act of obedience created another reason why liberty had to be postponed.
You know, that might be the answer – to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That’s a trick that never seems to fail.
Maybe the trick was to confess loudly to the wrong crime — it kept anyone from noticing you were guilty of the right one.
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.
The major praised courage as voluntary, then made volunteering mandatory, which proved every pilot was brave enough to obey before choosing.