Punch Clock Hero/Quotes

"I fight not for honor or for patriotism. I fight because I am a soldier."

—Jake, Assault Suits Valken/Cybernator

Red Soldier 1: Why do we fight?
Red Soldier 2: To win the war

Red Soldier 1: Meh. Works for me.

—Gone With the Blastwave

My lady, I am a hero. It is a trade, no more, like weaving or brewing.

—Prince Lir, The Last Unicorn

These, in the day when heaven was falling,
The hour when earth’s foundations fled,
Followed their mercenary calling
And took their wages and are dead.
Their shoulders held the sky suspended;
They stood, and earth’s foundations stay;
What God abandoned, these defended,
And saved the sum of things for pay.

Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries by A. E. Houseman