Quotes April 15, 2022

“Out of every one hundred men, ten should not even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, the one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.”
Heraclitus, Greek philosopher.
 
 
 
 
“If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.”
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States & former Army Colonel
 
 
 
 
“Battles are won by slaughter and manoeuvre. The greater the general, the more he contributes in manoeuvre, the less he demands in slaughter.”
Winston S. Churchill
 
 
 
 
“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.”
Dwight Eisenhower.
 
 
 
 
“The reason the American Army does so well in wartime is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices it on a daily basis.”
Karl Dönitz.
 
 
 
 
“Your soul may belong to Jesus, but your *ss belongs to the marines.”
Eugene B. Sledge
 
 
 
 
“In the simple moral maxim the Marine Corps teaches — do the right thing, for the right reason — no exception exists that says: unless there’s criticism or risk. D*mn the consequences.”
Josh Rushing
 
 
 
 
“Marines don’t cry.”
Barbara Nickless.
 
 
 
 
“The Marine Corps is the Navy’s police force, and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin’s.”
Harry S Truman.