QW - "The Citizen"

"What is the difference, if any, between the soldier and the civilian?…The difference lies in the field of civic virtue. A soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member, defending it, if need be, with his life. The civilian does not."

LT. J. RICO
Robert A. Heinlein’s
‘Starship Troopers’

Required reading for military officers in some countries.