Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
Come on boys! Give them the cold steel! Who will follow me?
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.
Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose.
In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkof was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harboured and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America. His answer..."I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting.
Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.
As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.
I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes.
Fate only picks on the cowards and quitters, So give 'em both barrels - and aim for the eyes.
The blurring of the line between policy and strategy] encouraged soldiers to make the preposterous claim that policy should be subservient to their conduct of operations, and (especially in democratic countries) it drew the statesman on to overstep the definite border of his sphere and interfere with his military employees in the actual use of their tools.
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy.
The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Obedience alone gives the right to command.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
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