Quotes April 07, 2023

“Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak and esteem to all.”
George Washington
 
 
 
 
“Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 
 
 
 
“We must never forget why we have and why we need our military. Our armed forces exist solely to ensure our nation is safe, so that each and every one of us can sleep soundly at night, knowing we have ‘guardians at the gate.’ ”
Allen West
 
 
 
 
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. The person 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.
John Stewart Mill