I would happily storm hell in the company of these troops ... how strongly they have demonstrated to the world that free men and women can fight like the dickens.
The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.
We must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.
For the mission's sake, our country's sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division's colors in the past battles - who fought for life and never lost their nerve - carry out your mission and keep your honor clean. Demonstrate to the world there is "No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy" than a U.S. Marine.
Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be considered unpatriotic.
The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.
It were better to be a soldier's widow than a coward's wife.
Courage! Do not fall back; in a little the place will be yours. Watch! When the wind blows my banner against the bulwark, you shall take it.
He, general or mere captain, who employs every one in the storming of a position can be sure of seeing it retaken by an organized counterattack of four men and a corporal.
Frederick liked to say that three men behind the enemy were worth fifty in front of him.
We ain't making no goddamn cornflakes here.
Will screw them hard, fast, and in an elegant manner.
The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war.
The onset of bayonets in the hands of the valiant is irresistible.
The best defense against terrorism is a strong offensive against terrorists. That work continues.
I gave them a fair warning
These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of America's resolve.
What our enemies have begun, we will finish.
This will not be a campaign of half measures, and we will accept no outcome except victory.
If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism.
The combination of professionalism and technology may also result in narrow-minded specialization more suited to a debating society than to an organization whose task it is to cope with, and indeed live in, the dangerous and uncertain environment of war.
It is part of a sailor's life to die well.
In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.
A beaten general is disgraced forever.
An Army is still a crowd, though a highly organized one. It is governed by the same laws, and under the stress of war is ever tending to revert to its crowd form. Our object in peace is so to train it that the reversion will become very slow.
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