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  • Only the dead have seen the end of war.

  • In yielding we are like the water, by nature placid, conforming to the hollow of the smallest hand; in time, shaping even the mountains to its will. Thus we keep duty and honor. We cherish clan and civilization. We are Chinese.

  • There is a way of losing that is finding. When soul overmasters sense. When the noble and divine self overcomes the lower self. When duty and honor and love immortal things bid the mortal perish. It is only when a man supremely gives that he supremely finds

    Men   Self   Giving  
  • The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training - sacrifice.

    Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY
  • No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

    Calvin Coolidge (1920). “Law and Order”
  • Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment.

    Education   Honor   World  
  • A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

    "Definition of a Gentleman". Memorandum found in Lee's papers after his death. "Lee the American" by Gamaliel Bradford, p. 233, xroads.virginia.edu. 1912.
  • In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

    Dream   War   Gun  
    Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY
  • All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

    Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen
  • All the great things are simple.

    Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen
  • Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

  • This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: "Only the dead have seen the end of war.

    Plato   War   Mean  
    Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY
  • "Duty, Honor, Country" - those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.

    Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY
  • In war there is no substitute for victory.

    Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY
  • Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.

    "Horace". Book by Pierre Corneille, act II, scene viii, 1639.
  • I think most of us secretly know – and those of us at the radical middle are inclined to say – that without such concepts as duty and honor and service, no civilization can endure. ... I suspect most Americans would respond positively to a [draft] if it gives us some choice in how to exercise that duty and service. ... Exactly the kind of choice my generation did not have during the Vietnam War.

    War   Exercise   Thinking  
  • However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.

    Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY
  • Do your duty and leave the rest to Providence.

  • A person less fortunate than yourself deserves the best you can give. Because of duty, and honor, and service. You understand those words? You should do your job right, and you should do it well, simply because you can, without looking for notice or reward.

    Jobs   Giving   Honor  
    Lee Child (2015). “The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 1, 7-Book Bundle: Persuader, The Enemy, One Shot, The Hard Way, Bad Luck and Trouble, Nothing to Lose, Gone Tomorrow”, p.1381, Delacorte Press
  • Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

  • Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

    Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY
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