We have met the enemy and they are ours.
Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
**** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
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.
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.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
Live for something rather than die for nothing.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
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