How true these words ring true today more than ever.
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A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit.
- the Army's magazine of preventive maintenance.
Everyone wants peace - and they will fight the most terrible war to get it.
- Miles Kington, on BBC Radio, 4th February 1995
The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duty from the front line.
- Charles Montague, 1867-1928
What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass.
- Lord Melbourne
"However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbor, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account. If we have to fight it must be on larger issues than that..."
- Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (1938)
about the conflict between Germany and Czechoslavkia)
"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. He who conquers others has physical strength. He who conquers himself is strong."
- Tao-te Ching
"Without supplies neither a general nor a soldier is good for anything"
- Clearchus, 401 BC. :Spartan officer, celebrated as the leader of the Ten Thousand.
"I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war."
- Georges Clemenceau
Those who talk about peace send those who lives are laid down to preserve it.
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"Although extraordinary valor was displayed by the entire corps of Spartans and Thespians (at Thermopylae), yet bravest of all was declared the Spartan Dienekes. It is said that on the eve of battle, he was told by a native of Trachis that the Persian archers were so numerous that, when they fired their volleys, the mass of arrows blocked out the sun. Dienkes, however, quite undaunted by this prospect, remarked with a laugh,
"Good. Then we'll have our battle in the shade."
"Come and get them."
Spartan King Leonidas' reply to the Persian Leader Xeres demand that the Spartans lay down their arms (at Thermopylae)
"Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.
monument at Thermopylae pass