There’s this old quote from Surcouf (a French privateer from the late 18th and early 19th century). When an English captain told him “you Frenchmen fight merely

There’s this old quote from Surcouf (a French privateer from the late 18th and early 19th century). When an English captain told him “you Frenchmen fight merely for money. Whereas us Englishmen fight for Honour”, he answered “well, everyone fights for what he lacks”.