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“The most difficult thing about planning against the Americans, is that they do not read their own doctrine, and they would feel no particular obligtion to follow it if they did." -Admiral Sergei I. Gorshkov, father of the Russian blue water navy

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature who can never be free except made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."--John Stuart Mill

"It is the unconquerable nature of man and not the nature of the weapon he uses that ensures victory." - General George S. Patton

“With two thousand years of examples behind us we have no excuse, when fighting, for not fighting well.” - T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia)

"You have never really lived, until you have almost died. For those who fight for it, life has a flavor that the protected will never know..."
- Hemingway

“It is not the big armies that win battles, it is the good ones.”
-Maurice de Saxe eighteenth-century marshal- general of France and noted rake

“There is nothing so pleasing as to be shot at by one’s enemy without result.”
-Sir Winston L. S. Churchill, World War II British leader and combat veteran

“Why study an army that has lost two world wars?”
-Michael A. Palmer,U.S. Army officer, on the Germans

“War is the mother of everything.”
-Heraclitus, ancient Greek philosopher

“War is nothing but the continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.”
-Karl von Clausowitz, On War

“The most persistent sound which reverbrates through man’s history is the beating of war drums.” -Arthur Koestler, Janus

“It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.”
- Robert E. Lee, remark at Fredericksburg, VA. 1862

“There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.” -General William T. Sherman, speech 1880 from which we derive the phrase “War is hell.”

“The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.” -George Orwell, Shooting of an Elephant

“In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.” -Heroditus, Histories

"You Americans do not realize what formidable warships you have in these four battleships. We have concluded after careful analysis that these magnificent ships are in fact the most to be feared in your entire naval arsenal. When engaged in combat we could throw everything we have at those ships and all our firepower would bounce off or be of little effect. Then when we are exhausted, we will detect you coming over the horizon and then you will sink us."

Fleet Admiral Sergei I. Gorshkov, Soviet navy CINC, 1985

"Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonor. They chose dishonor. They will now have war as well." - Winston S. Churchill

"A decent boldness ever meets with friends."
~ Homer

"Never confuse motion with action."
~ Benjamin Franklin

"Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action."
~ Abraham Lincoln

"Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning."
~ Benjamin Franklin

"War is death's feast."
~ George Herbert

"I war not with the dead."
~ Homer

"Birth is the beginning of death."
~ Thomas Fuller

"I die hard but am not afraid to go."
~ George Washington

"Death is a distant rumor to the young."
~ Andy Rooney

"I am become death, shatterer of worlds."
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer

"Have the courage to live. Anyone can die."
~ Robert Cody

"No hero is mortal till he dies."
~W. H. Auden

"He who doesn't fear death dies only once."
~ Giovanni Falcone

"Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny."
~ Aeschylus

"The act of dying is one of the acts of life."
~ Marcus Aurelius

"Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead."
~ Euripides

"I want to live forever, or die in the attempt."
~ unknown

"That was a time when only the dead could smile."
~ Anna Akhmatova

"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."
~ Benjamin Franklin

"What happens if you get scared half to death twice?"
~ Steven Wright

"We would rather die on our feet than live on our knees."
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway."
~ John Wayne

"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others."
~Winston Churchill

"A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own."
~ Thomas Mann

"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
~ Bertrand Russell

"Whom the Gods love die young no matter how long they live."
~ Elbert Hubbard

"Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all."
~ William Goldman

"Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity."
~ John Milton

"To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home."
~ unknown

"When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is."
~ Ayn Rand

"All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies."
~ John Arbuthnot

"The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct."
~ Marcus Aurelius

"When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness."
~ Tecumseh, Shawnees Indian Tribe

"Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death."
~ Lyman Beecher

"Death: A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor."
~ Seneca

"The best way to keep good intentions from dying is to execute them."
~ unknown

"The same man will be loved when he is dead. —Extinctus amabitur idem"
~ Horatius

"He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death."
~ Saki

"And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but Death who comes at last."
~ Sir Walter Scott

"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

"What a pity is it That we can die but once to save our country!"
~ Joseph Addison

"I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American."
~ Daniel Webster

"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
~ Earl Wilson

"If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live."
~ Martin Luther King Jr

"Death is just nature's way of telling you, "Hey, you're not alive anymore.""
~ Richard Moll

"Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!"
~ Virginia Woolf

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
~ Voltaire

"old men go to death, and death comes to young men."
~ Francis Bacon

"War is not nice."
~ Barbara Bush

"The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility."
~ John A. Fisher

"War is the science of destruction."
~ John Abbott

"To secure peace is to prepare for war."
~ Carl von Clausewitz

"War is a profane thing."
~ Norman Schwarzkopf

"In war, there are no unwounded soldiers."
~ Jose Narosky

"The true purpose of war is peace."
~ me

"We make war that we might live in peace."
~ Aristotle

"War does not determine who is right, only who is left."
~ Bertrand Russell

"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."
~ Douglas MacArthur

"In war nothing is impossible, provided you use audacity."
~ George Patton

"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving the peace."
~ George Washington

"Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it. . . . You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week."
~ Will Rogers