War quotations on experience, audacity, and rank

The sequence begins with Patton's deliberately brutal argument that victory requires the enemy to die for his country. Erasmus supplies the counterweight by warning that war seems delightful chiefly to those without experience of it. Another Patton saying reduces warfare to repeated audacity, while a later maxim credits sergeants and privates with winning wars that generals may only begin. A final joke compares the army unfavorably with the Boy Scouts' adult supervision. Read together, the lines expose competing cultures of aggression, skepticism, command prestige, and enlisted experience.