Michael

“You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. You’ve hit no traitor on the hip. You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip. You’ve never turned the wrong to right. You’ve been a coward in the fight.”
― Charles Mackay

“Ce qui est étonnant, dit-il, c’est que ce public qui ne juge ainsi des hommes et des choses de la guerre que par les journaux est persuadé qu’il juge par lui-même. »”
― Marcel Proust, A la recherche du temps perdu

“We travel not for trafficking alone;
By hotter winds our hearts are fanned:
For lust of knowing what should not be known
We take the Golden Road to Samarkand.”
― James Elroy Flecker