Quotes September 18, 2020

During the Constitutional Convention, Elbridge Gerry wanted to introduce a clause limiting the standing Army to only a few thousand soldiers. Washington, from the dais, muttered that they should then write a clause limiting invading armies to that number as well.
The Angry Staff Officer
 
 
 
 
No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.”
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
 
 
 
 
“True patriotism isn’t cheap. It’s about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.”
Robert Reich
 
 
 
 
“If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.”
Napoléon Bonaparte
 
 
 
 
“I can’t see how a single man could spend his time to better advantage than in the Marines.”
Sergeant Major Daniel Joseph “Dan” Daly
 
 
 
 
“A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.”
General George Smith Patton, Jr.
 
 
 
 
“A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.”
President Theodore Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“They’ve got us surrounded — the poor bastards.”
An unnamed medic