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• The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

  Desmond Tutu

  Memorial Day, Peace, Freedom

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• The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

  Tacitus

  Courage, Determination, Work

  "Annals". Book by Tacitus, Book XV, 50,

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• If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!

  William Pitt

  Country, Military, Revolution

  Francis Thackeray, William Pitt (1827). “A history of the Right Honorable William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: containing his speeches in Parliament : a considerable portion of his correspondence, when Secretary of State, upon French, Spanish, and American affairs, never before published with an account of the principal events and persons of his time, connected with his life, sentiments and administrations ; (Mit dem Bildnisse Pitts)”, p.327

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• Rascals, do you want to live forever?

  Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

  Military, War, Forever

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• It is your attitude, and the suspicion that you are maturing the boldest designs against him, that imposes on your enemy.

  Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

  Attitude, Military, War

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• Do something. Either lead, follow or get out of the way.

  Ted Turner

  Business, Way, School Principal

  Ted Turner, Janet Lowe (1999). “Ted Turner speaks: insight from the world's greatest maverick”, Wiley

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• War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

  George Orwell

  Strength, Peace, Freedom

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 1 (1949)

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• No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

  Horatio Nelson

  Courage, War, Enemy

  Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.91, Cambridge University Press

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• England expects that every man will do his duty.

  Horatio Nelson

  War, Men, England

  Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.149, Cambridge University Press

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• Where laws end, tyranny begins.

  William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

  Law, Ends, Tyranny

  William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.) (1839). “Correspondence, ed. by [W.S. Taylor and J.H. Pringle] the executors of his son John, earl of Chatham”, p.387

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• War makes rattling good history.

  Thomas Hardy

  Peace, War, Good History

  The Dynasts pt. 1, act 2, sc. 5 (1904)

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• Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of everything.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Love, Ends, Middle

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• A defensive war is apt to betray us into too frequent detachment. Those generals who have had but little experience attempt to protect every point, while those who are better acquainted with their profession, having only the capital object in view, guard against a decisive blow, and acquiesce in small misfortunes to avoid greater.

  Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

  Military, War, Blow

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• War is the only proper school of the surgeon.

  Hippocrates

  War, School, Surgeons

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• If soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.

  Frederick The Great

  War, Army, Thinking

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• Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.

  Voltaire

  War, Army, States

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• In war, important events result from trivial causes.

  Julius Caesar

  War, Important Events, Causes

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• An army must inevitably consist of the scum of the people and all those for which society has no use.

  Count of St. Germain

  Army, People, Use

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• Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Night, Doe

  'Coriolanus' (1608) act 4, sc. 5, l. [237]

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• A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Jail, Sailing

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 348 (16 March 1759).

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• Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

  George Santayana

  Military, War, Philosophical

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• Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Sweet, War, Smell

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• Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow.
  Nothing endures but change.

  Heraclitus

  Understanding, Delay, Today

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• It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.

  Lucretius

  Struggle, Wind, Sea

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• Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Peace

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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