“Nietzsche was “surely right” when he wrote: “ ‘Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared.’” And the second lesson was that no ism, not nationalism and not even patriotism, no emotion in which men can be indoctrinated and then manipulated, but only comradeship, the “loyalty to the group is the essence of fighting morale.”

“Nietzsche was “surely right” when he wrote: “ ‘Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared.’” And the second lesson was that no ism, not nationalism and not even patriotism, no emotion in which men can be indoctrinated and then manipulated, but only comradeship, the “loyalty to the group is the essence of fighting morale.”

— Jesse Glenn Gray