I'll start it off with one I found interesting.
"To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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I'll start it off with one I found interesting.
"To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
please share quotes, all shared quotes will be placed on a much better organized page at a later date.
Si Vis Pacem Parabellum -
If you seek peace, prepare for war!
"It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it." - Robert E. Lee
"War will cease when men refuse to fight."
- Fridtjof Hansen
For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.-Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"
- Edmund Burke (1729-1797), British statesman
"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."
- General George Patton Jr
"Come on you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?"
Gunnery Sergeant Dan Daly, 4 june 1918.
Leading Marines at Belleu Wood.
Later Daly told a Marine Historian,
"What I really yelled was: For Christ's sake, men-COME ON!
Do you want to live forever?"
Dan Daly served with Marine Fourth Brigade in WW1.
Gunnery Sergeant Dan Daley was awarded two Medals of Honor and a lot of other awards/medals.
Dan Daly is still one of the great legends of the Marines.
http://www.mclm.com/tohonor/ddaly.html
and philosopher
From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.
--Thomas Jefferson--
Let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their efforts shall not have been in vain.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Fuck surrender"
LT Michael Patrick Murphy U.S. Navy Seals ( â€* 28. Juni 2005)
During his last firefight.
"The power of example is very important to people under stress."
- General Sir John Hackett, British Army
I never trust a fighting man who doesnt smoke or drink.
- Admiral William Halsey
"Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy."
- Helvetius
your on a roll Mel