"-You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!"

"No such private nights of ecstasy or hushed-up drinking and sex orgies ever occurred. They might have occurred if either General Dreedle or General Peckem had once evinced an interest in taking part in orgies with him, but neither ever did, and the colonel was certainly not going to waste his time and energy making love to beautiful women unless there was something in it for him."

"And anything worth dying for"

"Let someone else get killed!"

"Suppose everyone on our side felt that way?"

"Well then I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?"