God! I will pack, and take a train, And get me to England once again! For England's the one land,I know, Where men with Splendid Hearts may go.

-Brooke, Rupert Chawner
  'The Old Vicarage, Grantchester'.

A soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.

-Eisenhower, Dwight D(avid)
  Inaugural address, 20  Jan.

Like men we'll face the murderous cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

-McKay, Claude originally Festus Claudius
  Harlem Shadows,'If  We Must Die'.

'Good-morning; good-morning!'the General said When we met him last weekon our way to the line. Now the soldiers he smiled at are most of 'em dead, And we're cursing his staff for incompetent swine. 'He's a cheery old card,'grunted Harry to Jack As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack. But he did for them both by his plan of attack.

-Sassoon, Siegfried Louvain
  'The General'.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal. The bourgeoisie in the long run onlychanged the form of the pack.

-Trotsky, Leon originally Lev Davidovich Bronstein
  History of the Russian Revolution (translated by Max Eastman,1934), vol.3, pt.3.