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  • I've always been homeschooled, so doing it on set is kind of the same thing. My mom makes it very interactive - we'll get a book on chocolate and learn how to make it, or she will buy antique items. I love military history, the mechanics and strategy of it.

    Mom   Military   Book  
    "A Day Out With The Middle Kids". Interview with Ingela Ratledge, www.tvguide.com. February 8, 2012.
  • The war with Iraq ... had to be one of the greatest non sequiturs in military history. Attacked by a gang composed largely of Islamic militants from Saudi Arabia, the United States countered by invading an unrelated country, and one of the most secular in the Middle East at that.

    Country   Military   War  
    Barbara Ehrenreich (2008). “Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation”, Granta Books (UK)
  • Christopher Lynch has made the best and the first careful translation of Machiavelli's Art of War. With useful notes, an excellent introduction, an interpretive essay, glossary, and index, it is a treasure for readers of military history and Renaissance thought as well as for lovers of Machiavelli.

    Art   Military   War  
  • 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 (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.395, Da Capo Press
  • During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.

    Beach   Wall   Military  
  • War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

    Death   Military   War  
    "The Civil War Generation". Book by Norman K. Risjord, p. 143, 2002.
  • All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America. Most of the states, of all ages ...have been founded in rapacity, usurpation, and injustice; so that in the contests recorded in history ...the military history of all nations being but a description of the wars and invasions of the mutual robbers and devastators of the human race.

    Military   War   Race  
  • Live for something rather than die for nothing. —George Patton

    Cindy Gerard (2008). “Whisper No Lies”, p.9, Simon and Schuster
  • If you go back into military history, the person who's leading the troops ought to be in with the troops and not just standing on the backline sending them into battle.

    "Richard Branson: Interview With ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2012.
  • Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

  • No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

    Country   Military   War  
    Attributed in Patton (motion picture) (1970). This is sometimes said to have been uttered in a speech by Patton to the Sixth Armored Division of the Third Army, 31 May 1944, but documentation is lacking. The following poem appeared in the Bureau of Aeronautics Navy Department News Letter, 1 Jan. 1943: "The greatest duty of a sailor / Is duty from worries and cares, / Not to die for his country, / Make our enemies die for theirs!"
  • Lincoln made mistakes. Roosevelt made mistakes. Eisenhower made mistakes. The Battle of the Bulge was the biggest intelligence failure in American military history, much bigger than any in Vietnam or now. We didn't know that the Soviets were moving 400,000 or 500,000 troops. We missed it.

    "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. February 14, 2007.
  • A man 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.

    Freedom   War   Military  
  • I love general history. That's all I read really. I don't read novels, I read history. I love it. I live in an area that's really rich in Civil War history. I live in Kentucky on a farm. A lot of revolution, a lot of military history I love.

    War   Military   Kentucky  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • In the tradition of Black Hawk Down, Malcolm MacPherson vividly brings to life this harrowing story of courage, pathos, and war at its grittiest. For military history buffs, or those interested in the front lines of the war on terror, Roberts Ridge is a must read.

    Military   War   Black  
  • Live for something rather than die for nothing.

  • People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

  • 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 Contest in America", Fraser's Magazine, February 1862.
  • [General James Mattis] a very talented individual. He's - has a personal library of about 10,000 books and he's read most of them on military history and strategy and so forth.

    Military   Book   Library  
    Source: www.npr.org
  • **** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!

    War   Military   Marine  
    At the battle of Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 ('torpedoes' were mines). Capt. A. T. Mahan 'Admiral Farragut' (1892) ch. 10
  • House passes #dadt (don't ask don't tell) repeal. A step fwd on equality 4 gay Americans in military. History will judge those who tried 2 block passage on this.

    Block   Military   Gay  
  • Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

    Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing
  • I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

    Speech in House of Commons, 13 May 1940
  • The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

    Country   Military   War  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

    "War As I Knew It". Book by George S. Patton. Chapter "Reflections and Suggestions", 1947.
  • I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.

    Military   Anger   Kids  
  • The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought.

    Respect   Military   Pay  
  • Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

    Speech in House of Commons, 20 Aug. 1940
  • Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

    "Pocket Patriot: Quotes from American Heroes". Book edited by Kelly Nickell, p. 157, 2005.
  • Many opportunities have been lost and hundreds of valuable lives uselessly sacrificed for want of a strict observance of discipline. Its object is to enable an army to bring promptly into action the largest possible number of its men, in good order and under the control of their officers. Its effects are visible in all military history, which records the triumphs of discipline and courage far more frequently than those of numbers and resources.

    "The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee". Abridged,
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