• Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.

    Herman Melville: Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.
    Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war”, p.304