"I always get the shakes before a drop. I've had the injections, of course, and hypnotic preparation, and it stands to…"

"Rasczak's Roughnecks have got a reputation to uphold. The Lieutenant told me before he bought it to tell you that he …"

"My mother said violence never solves anything." "So?" Mr. Dubois looked at her bleakly. "I'm sure the city fathers of…"

"… I was not making fun of you personally; I was heaping scorn on an inexcusably silly idea — a practice I shall alway…"

"But if you want to serve and I can't talk you out of it, then we have to take you, because that's your constitutional…"

"Don't you know about SGT's? ... They don't have mothers. Just ask any trained private." He blew smoke towards us. "Th…"

"I made a very important discovery at Camp Currie. Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more…"

"There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men."

"If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut its head off? Of course not. You'd paddle it. There can be circ…"

"That old saw about "to understand all is to forgive all" is a lot of tripe. Some things, the more you understand the …"