Italy has been losing wars for centuries, and just see how splendidly we've done nonetheless. France wins wars and is in a continual state of crisis. Germany loses and prospers. Look at their own recent history. Italy won a war in Ethiopia and promptly stumbled into serious trouble. (...) I was a fascist when Mussolini was on top, and I am an anti-fascist now that he has been deposed." p.312)
"I suppose you just don't care if you lose your leg, do you ?
It's my leg.
It certainly is not your leg ! Nurse Cramer retorted. "That leg belongs to the U.S.government. It's no different than a gear or a bedpan. The Army has invested a lot of money to make you an airplane pilot, and you've no right to disobey the doctor's orders". (p.370).
"Good God, how much reverence caan you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of creation ? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatoalogical mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements ? Why in the world did He ever create pain ?
He had to really do a job, and then look ath the stupid, ugly little mess He made of it instead, His sheer incompetence is almost staggering" (p.230).