Patriotic/Military
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so
few.
- Sir Winston Churchill, on the British airmen in the Battle of Britain
The U. S. relies on the Air Force and the Air Force has never been the
decisive factor in the history of wars.
- Saddam Hussein
Gulf Lesson One, is the value of air power.
- George Bush
Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but never hit softly.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Hit hard, hit fast, lest be hit first.
- Alexander the Great
There is nothing so pleasing as to be shot at by one's enemy without
result
- Sir Winston Churchill
I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
- Nathan Hale
Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your
country.
- John F. Kennedy
Freedom has a taste to those who fight and almost die that the
protected will never know.
- Unknown
It is the soldier, not the reporter,
Who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet,
Who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the campus organizer,
Who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.
It is the soldier, Who salutes the flag,
Who serves beneath the flag,
and whose coffin is draped by the flag,
Who allows the protester to burn the flag.
- Father Denis Edward O'Brien, USMC
Freedom isn't free.
- Unknown
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
misrable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by
the exertions of better men than himself.
- John Stewart Mill
To prepare for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving
peace.
- George Washington
Those that stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general,
the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
- Sir Winston Churchill
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men
stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
- George Orwell
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the
spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
- General George Patton
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
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
They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.
- General Creighton W. Abrams
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even
though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who
neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight
that knows not victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
It is not the big armies that win battles, it is the good ones.
- Maurice de Saxe, 18th century marshal-general of France
Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less
concerned about the latter than the former. Space we can recover, lost time
never.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
To conquer the command of the air means victory: to be beaten in the
air means defeat.
- Giulio Douhet
Those who have not yet realized danger are generally the bravest
soldiers.
- Colmar von der Goltz, German field marshal, WWI
Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small,
large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the
enemy.
- Sir Winston Churchill
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other
bastard die for his.
- General George Patton
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
We make war that we may live in peace.
- Aristotle
In war there is no substitute for victory.
- General Douglas MacArthur
Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde
Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier.
- Samuel Johnson
I admire men of character, and I judge character not by how men deal
with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates, and
that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.
- General Norman Schwarzkopf
If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and wear the
clothes you tell them to wear, how are you going to get them to die for their
country?
- General George Patton
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benfit
when he dies.
- Tertullin
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of
death but once.
- William Shakespeare
Poetry
High Flight
Oh, I have slipped the surly
bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings.
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds -- and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of -- wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
- John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
One More Roll
We toast our hearty comrades
who have
Fallen from the skies, and were gently caught
By God's own hand to be with Him on high.
To dwell among the soaring
clouds.
They've known so well before, from victory
Roll to tail chase, at Heaven's very door.
As we fly among them there
we're sure to
Hear their plea, to take care my friend,
Watch your six, and do one more roll for me.
- Commander Jerry Coffee, Hanoi, 1968
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