Commanders and senior officers should die with troops. The honour of the British Empire and the British Army is at stake.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
  Telegram to Wavell, the commander in chief of armed forces in Singapore,10 Feb, after being told that a  Japanese victory was inevitable. Recalled in The Second World War, vol.4 (1951).

Troops always ready to act, my well-filled treasury, and the liveliness of my dispositionöthese were my reasons for making war on MariaTheresa.

-Frederick II, the Great
  Letter to Voltaire.

A society that admires its shock troops had better be bloody careful about where it's going.

-Le Carre¤  ,John pseudonym of  David John Moore Cornwell
  A Perfect Spy, ch.18.

There entertain him all the saints above, In solemn troops, and sweet societies That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.

-Milton,John
  Lycidas, l.178^81.

The Soviet Union remains a superpower in the military and nuclear senseöonly its economy is in difficulty. People want me to lead the troops out or to chuck them over the border, but I have neither the strength nor the will to do it.

-Walesa, Lech
  In TheTimes,17 Apr. English poet  and Sinologist.  He was  a distinguished translator of Chinese andJapanese literature.