Quotes June 07, 2019

This will remain the land of the free so long as it is the home of the brave.
Elmer Davis
 
 
 
 
Word to the Nation: Guard zealously your right to serve in the Armed Forces, for without them, there will be no other rights to guard.
Any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: ‘I served in the United States Navy.
John F. Kennedy
 
 
 
 
The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.
Minot J. Savage
 
 
 
 
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
 
 
 
 
Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.
Colonel David Hackworth
 
 
 
 
From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.
Thomas Jefferson
 
 
 
 
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
 
 
 
 
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Thomas Paine
 
 
 
 
America without her Soldiers would be like God without His angels.
Claudia Pemberton
 
 
 
 
War is the greatest evil Satan has invented to corrupt our hearts and souls. We should honor our soldiers, but we should never honor war.
Dean Hughes
 
 
 
 
A safe army is better than a safe border.
B.R. Ambedkar
 
 
 
 
We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.
Aaron Sorkin
 
 
 
 
No man is a man until he has been a soldier.
Louis de Bernières
 
 
 
 
Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
Malcolm X
 
 
 
 
War is too important to be left to the generals.
Georges Clémenceau
 
 
 
 
It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
 
 
 
 
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
 
 
 
 
The veterans of our military services have put their lives on the line to protect the freedoms that we enjoy. They have dedicated their lives to their country and deserve to be recognized for their commitment.
Judd Gregg
 
 
 
 
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
G.K. Chesterton
 
 
 
 
The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its military might in every way can it develop into a thriving country.
Kim Jong-un
 
 
 
 
We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.
Winston S. Churchill
 
 
 
 
It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self-confidence born of demonstrated ability.
George S. Patton Jr.
 
 
 
 
Freedom is never free.
Anonymous