Truer words, sadly

Among the military services, concepts such as courage, honor, duty and valor possess deep consequences, bearing witness to their historic readiness to shed blood in defense of the country's rights, freedoms and liberty. Among the elect, those words are the language of the patsy; best mouthed with the distractions of glory and pomp while plundering a fellow citizen's trash, tapping his phone line or, at the very best of moments, emerging victorious at computer solitaire during a session of congress.

from A Demon's Nest of Sentiments
http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2013/10/20

I am reminded of 'Character is what you are in the dark'.