I sincerely trust that they may distinguish themselves, but they have not had an opportunity to do so.

Not one of them has as yet honoured his draft on death.

Behind their forts, their troops, their crowd of peasants, and their ramparts, they boast of what they will do.

If they do really bury themselves beneath the ruins of their capital they will be entitled to the admiration of history, but as yet they are civilians of the present and heroes of the future.

Noisy blusterers may be brave men.