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Military Quotes
If it moves, salute it; if it doesn't move, pick it up; and if you can't pick it up, paint it.
--Anonymous (1940's saying)--
The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!
--Rudyard Kipling--
Soldiers are men...most apt for all manner of services and best able to support and endure the infinite toils and continual hazards of war.
--Henry Knyvett--
A soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of the general.
--Adapted from Henry G. Bohn--
Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.
--Josephus Daniels--
Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.
--Napoleon I--
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--
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--
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
--George Patton--
Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.
--Will Rogers--
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
--Thucydides--
Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them.
--Napoleon Bonaparte--
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--
The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.
--Charles Edward Montague--
Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much.
--Oscar Wilde--
Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.
--Blake Clark--
Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.
--Helvetius--
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--
Now I recall the Recon Marines ragged, filthy cammie shirted young men in green paint who move silent like the fog with deadly purpose in their eyes. Swift, Silent, Deadly. I smile. -
--GYSGT Correll, USMC, Retired-- Recon Marine
Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking.
--Ferdinand Foch-- at the Battle of the Marne
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