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May God Bless and Keep America Strong

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I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
General George Patton Jr.

"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

"I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction:
"I served in the United States Navy"
John F. Kennedy

"The sergeant is the Army."
General Dwight D. Eisenhower

"It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle."
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

"As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a
strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational art, nor is he a
tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that he's a
great military man-I want you to know that."
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf - 1991

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog"
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
January 1958. Republican National Convention

"I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to
turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions."
General Omar N. Bradley

"Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result."
Winston Churchill

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
Prime Minister Winston Churchill (about the Royal Air Force)

"Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the
battlefield will think hard before starting a war."
Otto Von Bismarck

"People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election."
Otto Von Bismarck

"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid."
General Dwight D. Eisenhower

"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."
Attributed to General George Patton Jr

"There is no victory at bargain basement prices."
General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.
Josephus Daniels

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--

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