People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
We have met the enemy and they are ours.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
Live for something rather than die for nothing.
Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Get the hell out of my way!
Live for something rather than die for nothing. —George Patton
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.
It is not the critic who counts
It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly.
or simply:
