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There is something about going to sea. A little bit of discipline, self-discipline and humility are required. (Wallach Eli)
We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers. (Wallach Eli)
Valor, glory, firmness, skill, generosity, steadiness in battle and ability to rule -- these constitute the duty of a soldier. They flow from his own nature. (Wallach Eli)
The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island. (Wallach Eli)
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The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes. (Wallach Eli)
In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things. (Wallach Eli)
The General Order is always to maneuver in a body and on the attack; to maintain strict but not pettifogging discipline; to keep the troops constantly at the ready; to employ the utmost vigilance on sentry go; to use the bayonet on every possible occasion; and to follow up the enemy remorselessly until he is utterly destroyed. (Wallach Eli)
Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them. (Wallach Eli)
War is too important a matter to be left to the military. (Wallach Eli)
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. (Wallach Eli)
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten. (Wallach Eli)
I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else. (Wallach Eli)
Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever? (Wallach Eli)
I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman. I would know him, that would refuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know there is not any such here. (Wallach Eli)
The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor. (Wallach Eli)
The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. (Wallach Eli)
Rogues, would you live forever? (Wallach Eli)
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. (Wallach Eli)
Conscription may have been good for the country, but it damn near killed the army. (Wallach Eli)
Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea. (Wallach Eli)
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food and commonly better company. (Wallach Eli)
Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children? (Wallach Eli)
There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen. (Wallach Eli)
The army is the true nobility of our country. (Wallach Eli)
History shows that there are no invincible armies. (Wallach Eli)
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