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  • A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

    First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953
  • We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

  • How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

    "Celebrating Our She-roes" by Jill S. Tietjen, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2014.
  • 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
  • It is extremely disappointing to me to see that even now when leading Democrats and even military veterans try to make our energy future an area of common ground and not a battleground, they are still being rebuffed by dirty energy devotees in both parties and undermined overall by the polluter lobby.

    Military   Party   Dirty  
    Source: rooseveltinstitute.org
  • America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.

  • The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

  • Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

    Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941
  • I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

    Peace   War   Hate  
    Speech in Ottawa on January 10, 1946. "Eisenhower Speaks: Dwight D. Eisenhower in His Messages and Speeches". Book edited by Rudolph L. Treuenfels, 1948.
  • It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

    "Painkiller Deathstreak" by Nicholson Baker, www.newyorker.com. August 9, 2010.
  • Once over there [Balkans], I felt extremely patriotic. Here are these people, from 18-year-olds to military veterans, enduring real duress for the cause of peace. I don't ever want to play for a regular audience again, only military folks who are starving for music.

  • In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

    Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.351, Courier Corporation
  • I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

    Life   Fear   Military  
    Letter to Le Ray de Chaumont, 16 Nov. 1778
  • People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

  • In war there is no substitute for victory.

    Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY
  • Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.

    Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941
  • This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

  • What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

    Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.135, Best Books on
  • **** 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
  • Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.

    Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.32, Wildside Press LLC
  • There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time.

    Military   Mean   Army  
    "Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder". Book by Michael Savage. Chapter 1: "More Patton, Less Patent Leather", p. 4, 2005.
  • The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.

  • 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.
  • The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

    Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention
  • Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.

    Richard Watson Gilder (1900). “Five Books of Song”
  • We have met the enemy and they are ours.

    Message toWilliam Henry Harrison, 10 Sept. 1813. The source is Perry's dispatch from the U.S. brig Niagara to General Harrison, announcing that victory at the Battle of Lake Erie was secure. The dispatch was written in pencil on the back of an old letter; it is quoted in Robert B. McAfee, History of the LateWar in theWestern Country (1816). SeeWalt Kelly 2; Walt Kelly 3
  • Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.

  • It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

    2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 1 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York
  • Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

    Life   Change   Wise  
    1952 In Time, 6 Oct.
  • Always do everything you ask of those you command.

    "I Remember General Patton's Principles". Book by Porter B. Williamson, p. 174, 1984.
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