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We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have now done so much for so long with so little, we are now capable of doing anything with nothing
Author: Navy Quote
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I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier.
Author: A Mother's Plea for Peace (1915)
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War, children, is just a shot away, it's just a shot away.
Author: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
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Stay alert, stay alive.
Author: Motto of the U.S. First Infantry Division in Vietnam
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For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "Savior of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot.
Author: Rudyard Kipling
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I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to give the roar.
Author: Winston Churchill
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The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
Author: David Friedman
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We will either find a way, or make one.
Author: Hannibal
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The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer.
Author: Air Force Motto
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Aye. Fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live. At least awhile... And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance -- just one chance -- to come back here and tell our enemies that they make take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!!
Author: William Wallace, "Braveheart"
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The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.
Author: General Patterson (WWII)
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War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
Author: Georges Clemenceau
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Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Author: Groucho Marx
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If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Author: Lord Salisbury
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As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he as a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.
Author: General Norman Schwarzkopf
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A good plan violently executed today is better than a perfect plan executed tomorrow.
Author: George S. Patton
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When force is necessary, it must be applied boldly, decisively, and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a manuever, the blow with an agreement.
Author: Leon Trotsky
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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
Author: H. L. Mencken
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
Author: Mao Zedong
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