The English soldier was probably the worst-treated soldier in Europe, and judging from the English casualty rates during the Napoleonic wars, English generals were more lavish with their soldiers' lives than were their French and German colleagues.

Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.

If you are going to seek the death penalty, it can't be against the foot soldiers or people the organization views as expendable.

They were mostly French, a few Arabs, and despite their uniforms they didn't look very important any more. Later I learned that if you watch men die, especially if you've known them at all, they still look important afterward no matter what you have to do with them, but I was inexperienced then.

Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.

American soldiers don't do that. And we don't do it because we think it's fun. And we don't do it for our laughs. And we don't take pictures of it.