badge quotes

The Red Badge of Courage.

- Stephen Crane
  Title of novel.

Since no normal humble man can help but feel magnificent in a brand-new suit of clothes, it is not surprising that those who don a fresh suit of bright white linen every day should feel magnificent always. Nor is it surprising that a normal humble head should swell beneath a solar topee, since a topee is more a badge of authority than a hat, as is the hat of a soldier.

- Xavier Herbert
  Capricornia,'Psychological Effect of a Solar Topee'.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the bowers of paradise.

-Thomas Paine
  Common Sense, ch.1.

But one thing we learned: there is no glory in the deed Until the soldier wears a badge of tarnished braid.

- Sir Herbert Edward Read
  'To a Conscript of1940'.