People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
We have met the enemy and they are ours.
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.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
**** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
American soldiers in battle don't fight for what some president says on T.V., they don't fight for mom, apple pie, the American flag...they fight for one another.
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