A position is seldom lost because it is destroyed, but invariably because the leader has determined in his own mind that his position cannot be held.
--General A.A. Vandegrift, USMC--

The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.
--Ayn Rand--

The future does not belong to the faint of heart.
--Ronald Reagan--

The limitation of tyrants is the endurance of those they oppose.
--Frederick Douglass--

You say we [reporters] are distracting from the business of government. Well, I would hope so. Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.
--P.J. O'Rourke--

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
--Winston Churchill--

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
--Gen. Douglas MacArthur--

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
--Walter S. Landor--

The very essence of leadership is vision. You cannot blow an uncertain trumpet.
-Theodore Hesburg-

The ultimate lesson of D-Day should not be the willingness of freedom's friends to come to its defense in an hour of grave peril. It should rather be how unnecessary such sacrifice is. If statesmen do their jobs with vision and resolution, then soldiers needn't be exposed to murderous fire.
--Ronald Regan--

No plan survives contact with the enemy.
--Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke--

The chief incalculable in war is the human will.
--B.H. Liddell Hart--

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
-- General George S. Patton, Jr--

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
--General George S. Patton, Jr--

Intuition is often crucial in combat, and survivors learn not to ignore it.
--Col F.F. Parry, USMC--

Tears will get you sympathy. Sweat will get you results.
--Unknown--

If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of crime rates reduced by such legislation. That they cannot do so after a century and a half of trying--that they must sweep under the rug the southern attempts at gun control in the 1870-1910 period, the northeastern attempts in the 1920-1939 period, the attempts at both Federal and State levels in 1965-1976--establishes the repeated, complete and inevitable failure of gun laws to control serious crime.
--Senator Orrin Hatch-- (Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution, 97th Cong., 2d Sess., The Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Committee Print I-IX, 1-23 1982).

If anyone speaks badly of you, live so none would dare believe it.
--Unknown--

Foreign aid: The transfer of money from poor people in rich countries
to rich people in poor countries.
--Unknown--

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage
unless you're scared.
--Eddie Rickenbacker--

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
--Robert Louis Stevenson--

If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course,
no one would have remembered him either.
--Unknown--

And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us...
--Rush--

Fortune sides with him who dares.
--Virgil--

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
--Seneca--

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
--Publilius Syrus--

A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
--John A. Shedd--

We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender!
--Sir Winston Churchill--

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--

Freedom isn't free.
--Anonymous—

Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky;
And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that would break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back --
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
--Rudyard Kipling--

Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a difference in the world, Marines don't have that problem.
--Ronald Reagan--

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living.
--John F. Kennedy--

A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons.
--Admiral David D. Porter, USN—

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—

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier.
--Samuel Johnson--

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

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid
--Col. David H. Hackworth--

A war put off is NOT a war avoided."
--Charlton Heston--

All warfare is based on deception
--Sun Tzu--

The moral difference between a soldier and a civilian is that the soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member. The civilian does not.
--Robert Heinlein--

Moderation in war is imbecility
--Admiral John Fisher--

The fear of war is worse than war itself
--Seneca--

There'll always be another war
-- Frank Burns--

We have War when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants Peace
-- Jeane J. Kirkpatrick--

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
- General George S. Patton --

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
--Napoleon Bonaparte--

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
--Aeschylus--

Death is a better, milder fate, than tyranny.
--Aeschylus--

The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
--Samuel Adams--

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
--Samuel Adams--

The gods too are fond of a joke.
--Aristotle--

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
--Aristotle--

There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.
--Tony Blair--

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
--Hermann Hesse--

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
--Margaret Thatcher--

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
--Margaret Thatcher--

Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, 'What should be the reward of such sacrifices?' Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship, and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!
--Samuel Adams--

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
--Patrick Henry--

You and I know that life is not so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing is worth dying for, when did this begin...? Should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots of Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain!
--Ronald Reagan--

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
--Mother Teresa of Calcutta--

The Bible to Soldiers: Try to "do violence to no man.. and be content with your pay".
--[Luke 3:14]--