"Exactly what I said. As long as you're alive a soldier or a sailor
might as well be a Zulu; useful for the length he can throw a spear or
shoot an arrow, but useless as he now stands. There is no army,
apparently, right now that is worth more than its body weight--again,
as long as you live."
"Do you have to harp on that?"
"Why not? Do you want to live forever, or do you expect to?"