"To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last--but eat you he will." - Ronald Reagan
"You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done." - Ronald Reagan
"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 person 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." -John Stewart Mill
"War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over." - William Tecumseh Sherman
"Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats." - Josephus Daniels
"Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a difference in the world, but the Marines don't have that problem." -Ronald Reagan
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his." - George Patton
"We make war that we may live in peace." - Aristotle
"In war there is no substitute for victory." - General Douglas MacArthur
"Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war." - Ernest Miller Hemmingway
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - George Orwell
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't." - General George S. Patton
"A man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder… if he has the imagination, he will turn around and fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take, if he has the guts, he will take it." - General George S. Patton
"Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more." - General George S. Patton
"It seems to me a certainty that the fatalistic teachings of Mohammed and the utter degradation of the Arab women are the outstanding causes for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have been developing." - General George S. Patton
"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer." - General George S. Patton
"Pressure makes diamonds." - General George S. Patton
"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan next week." - General George S. Patton
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