“Never give in–never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, 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.”
Winston Churchill
“I admire men of character, and I judge character NOT by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates, and that, to men, is where you find out what the character of a man is”. General H. Norman Schwartzkopf
“Experience proves that the man who obstructs a war in which his nation is engaged, no matter whether right or wrong, occupies no enviable place in life or history. Better for him, individually, to advocate “war, pestilence, and famine,” than to act as an obstructionist to a war already begun… The most favorable posthumous history the stay-at-home traitor can hope for is–oblivion.”
U.S. Grant
Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say ‘what should be the reward of such sacrifices?’ Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom — go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!
Samuel Adams
I leave this rule for others when I’m dead, Be always sure you’re right–then go ahead.
Davy Crockett
“People ask ‘Why is there war?’ They might as well as ‘Why is there a rock?’ War has always been here and always will be here. It was here before man, the ultimate art awaiting the ultimate practitioner.”
“It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.”
Cormnc McCarthy
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 Stuart Mill, English economist & philosopher (1806 – 1873)
“God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty… And what country can preserve its liberties, if it’s rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”
Thomas Jefferson
Never in the history of the world has any soldier sacrificed more for the freedom and liberty of total strangers than the American soldier.
Zell Miller (D) Georgia 2004
“Fuck ’em! Grease ’em!”
Unknown 2/160th pilot to his gunners on seeing the enemy lighting fires on mountain tops trying to triangulate their position.
