and ah yes the signature quote that very much needs to be taken with the sentence preceding it
Vetinari was suddenly in front of Vimes, his chair hitting the floor behind his desk. "Really? Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight!" He hesitated, and then shrugged. "And you should say bought and sold? All right. But nott, I think, needlessly spent."
this is the one time in the entire discworld series that Vetinari is seen losing his cool
(okay to be fair i havent yet read the last two... )= )