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  Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Life, Change, Wise

  1952 In Time, 6 Oct.

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• The sergeant is the Army.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Army, Sergeants

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• The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Leadership, Death, Witty

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• Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Mean, Political

  Speech in London. "Memorial Life of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant". Book edited by y Stephen Merrill Allen, p. 95, 1889.

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• The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Success, Peace, Freedom

  United Nations Bulletin Vol. XVI, No. 4, February 15, 1954.

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• 137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.

  Doc Hastings

  Memorial Day, Patriotic, Years

  FaceBook post by Doc Hastings from May 28, 2013

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• Who says I am not under the special protection of God?

  Adolf Hitler

  Special, Dictator, Protection

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• A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

  Grace Hopper

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  1987 Address at Trinity College, Washington. Reported in Time, 22 Jun.

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• I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

  John F. Kennedy

  Strength, Country, Future

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.817, Best Books on

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• The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, War, Idaho

  "John F. Kennedy: 1961 : containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the president, January 20 to December 31, 1961" by John F. Kennedy, Washington: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1962.

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• I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.

  Nelson Mandela

  Art, War, Fighting

  Nelson Mandela (1973). “No Easy Walk to Freedom”, p.175, Heinemann

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• War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Giving, Enemy

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• We must never forget why we have, and why we need our military. Our armed forces exist solely to ensure our nation is safe, so that each and every one of us can sleep soundly at night, knowing we have 'guardians at the gate.'

  Allen West

  Sleep, Night, Knowing

  "Remembering our guardians at the gate". Article by Allen West, humanevents.com. May 28, 2012.

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• War is the province of chance. In no sphere of human activity is such a margin to be left for this intruder. It increases the uncertainty of every circumstance, and deranges the course of events.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Events, Spheres

  "The Essential Clausewitz: Selections from On War".

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• They feed the crocodile in the hope that he will eat them last.

  Winston Churchill

  Lasts, Crocodiles

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• Ambition, the soldier's virtue.

  William Shakespeare

  Ambition, Soldier, Virtue

  William Shakespeare, David Bevington (1990). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.153, Cambridge University Press

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• Arise, go forth, and conquer as of old.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Conquer, Arise

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1178, Delphi Classics

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• Keep conscience clear, then never fear.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Advice, Never Fear, Clear

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.173, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.

  Seneca the Younger

  Loyalty, Heart, Humans

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• Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.

  Richard Aldington

  Responsibility, Patriotism And Nationalism, Lively

  Colonel's Daughter (1931) pt. 1, ch. 6

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• I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Summer, Fighting, Civil War

  Dispatch from Spotsylvania (Va.) Court House, 11 May 1864.

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• We have met the enemy and they are ours.

  Oliver Hazard Perry

  Memorial Day, Veterans Day, War

  Message toWilliam Henry Harrison, 10 Sept. 1813. The source is Perry's dispatch from the U.S. brig Niagara to General Harrison, announcing that victory at the Battle of Lake Erie was secure. The dispatch was written in pencil on the back of an old letter; it is quoted in Robert B. McAfee, History of the LateWar in theWestern Country (1816). SeeWalt Kelly 2; Walt Kelly 3

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• Hope encourages men to endure and attempt everything; in depriving them of it, or in making it too distant, you deprive them of their very soul.

  Maurice de Saxe

  Men, Soul, Endure

  Maurice de Saxe (2012). “Reveries on the Art of War”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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  Get mad, then get over it.

  Colin Powell

  Life, Moving On, Wise

  Colin Powell (2012). “It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Wisdom

  Albert Einstein (2003). “Einstein's 1912 manuscript on the special theory of relativity”, George Braziller

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