The devil is in the details, and everything we do in the military is a detail

Military can be fun, but it is not for your amusement.

The chains of military despotism once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.

You know all that money we spend on the military ever year -- trillions of dollars? Instead, if we use this money to feed and clothe the poor of this world, which it would do many times over, then we can explore space, inner and outer, together, as one race.

The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits