Neither will it be, that a people overlaid with taxes should ever become valiant and martial.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.29,'Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms'.

In enterprise of martial kind, When there was any fighting, He led his regiment from behindö He found it less exciting. But when away his regiment ran, His place was at the fore,Oö That celebrated, Cultivated Underrated Nobleman, The Duke of Plaza-Toro!

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
  Duke's song, The Gondoliers, act1.

The Frenchhad a moremartial air thanthe English.There seemed to be a species of military instinct in all classes. No young man appeared to have finished his education till after a bloody campaign† They were at this singular period, without the least exaggeration, a century behind us in notions of legal and moral responsibility.

-Haydon, Benjamin Robert
Autobiography (published1847).