Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
The General Order is always: ......To manoeuver 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.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.
Military discipline is merely a perfection of social servitude.
There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifery.
With regard to military discipline, I may safely say that no such thing existed in the Continental Army.
Their notion of training was to march the men up and down in parades and reviews: these were nice to look at and gave them the impression of military discipline and precision, but as a preparation for a modern war they had no value whatsoever.
We still have many shortcomings and failures to fulfill the Party's demands, especially as regards the liquidation in some of our people of survivals of the accursed past in consciousness and conduct and the fulfillment of the demands of our Soviet ethics and military discipline.
Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because, pointing out the inhabitants and citizens of the city, so expert in military discipline and so strong and well armed: "Here," he said, "are the walls of the city," meaning that there is no wall but of bones, and that towns and cities can have no more secure nor stronger wall than the virtue of their citizens and inhabitants.
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