DesertFox
06-04-2004, 03:28 PM
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. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
-- Samuel Adams
Those who expect to reap the benefits of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
-- Thomas Paine
The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave...
-- Patrick Henry
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.
-- Thomas Jefferson
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.
-- Winston Churchill
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
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
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
-- George Orwell
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
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
-- Prime Minister Winston Churchill
To have the United States at our side was to me the greatest joy. Now at this very moment I knew the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all!...Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to powder.
-- Prime Minister Winston Churchill (after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor)
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.
-- General George Patton Jr
We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pissing Japs and clean out their nest, too. Before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit.
-- General George S. Patton, Jr (addressing to his troops before Operation Overlord, June 5, 1944)
Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it. The quicker they are whipped, the quicker we can go home. The shortest way home is through Berlin and Tokyo. And when we get to Berlin, I am personally going to shoot that paper hanging son-of-a-bitch Hitler. Just like I'd shoot a snake!
-- General George S. Patton, Jr (addressing his troops before Operation Overlord, June 5, 1944)
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
-- General George S. Patton, Jr
I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind.
-- General George S. Patton
War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
-- General William T. Sherman
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.
-- Allan Massie
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother; be never so vile. This day shall gentle his condition. And gentlemen in England now abed shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry, in King Henry V, act 4, sc. 3.
No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most generous and proudest of all virtues is true valor) and noble in its cause. No utility either more just or universal than the protection of the repose or defense of the greatness of one's country. The company and daily conversation of so many noble, young and active men cannot but be well-pleasing to you.
-- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
-- Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), U.S. Republican politician, president. Speech, 27 July 1920, Northampton, Massachusetts, accepting the Republican vice-presidential nomination.
Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
-- Vegetius (4th century), Roman military strategist.
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
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 Hemingway
When you men get home and face an anti-war protester, look him in the eyes and shake his hand. Then, wink at his girlfriend, because she knows she's dating a pussy.
-- Attributed to General Tommy Franks
That public virtue which among the ancients was denominated patriotism, is derived from a strong sense of our own interest in the preservation and prosperity of the free government of which we are members.
-- Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
If a man hasn't discovered something that he would die for, he isn't fit to live.
-- Martin Luther King, 23 Jun 1963
Peace purchased at the cost of any part of our national integrity is fit only for slaves, and even when purchased for such a price it is a delusion, for it cannot last.
-- Wm. E. Borah
War is the second worst activity of mankind, the worst being acquiescence in slavery.
-- Wm. F. Buckley Jr.
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
-- George Orwell
Bella suscipienda sunt ob eum causum, ut sine injuria in pace vivatur.
(Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.)
-- Cicero
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
-- Dolores Ibarruri, speaking against Generalissimo Franco's Fascists during the Spanish Civil War, 3 Sep 1936
A pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
-- Theodore Roosevelt, July 27 1917
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 take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
-- Patrick Henry, Mar 23 1775
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
-- Thomas Jefferson
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
-- Thomas Sowell
My path is clear here: I am to love my neighbor as myself, in the manner needed, in a practical way, in the midst of the fallen world, at my particular point of history. This is why I am not a pacifist. Pacifism in this poor world in which we live -- this lost world -- means that we desert the people who need our greatest help.
-- Francis Schaeffer, 1984
August 5, 1916
Dear Mrs. Meloney,
There are a good many things that America needs, if Santa Claus could only give them!
Here are a few of them:
1. That every molly-coddle, professional pacifist, and man who is "too proud to fight" when the nation's quarrel is just, should be exiled to those out of the way parts... where the spirit of manliness has not yet penetrated.
2. That every decent young man should have a family, job, and the military training which will enable him to keep this country out of war by making it dangerous for any ruthless military people to attack us.
3. That every youngster should have a good and wise mother; and every good woman a child for her arms.
4. That we may all of us become an efficient, patriotic, and nobly proud people - too proud either to inflict wrong or to endure it.
Good luck, Always yours
Theodore Roosevelt
In this world of sin and sorrow if virtue triumphs over vice it is not because it is virtuous, but because it has better and bigger guns; if honesty prevails over double dealing, it is not because it is honest, but because it has a stronger army more ably led; and if good overcomes evil it is not because it is good, but because it has a well-lined purse. It is well to have right on our side, but it is madness to forget that unless we have might as well it will avail us nothing. We must believe that God loves men of good will, but there is no evidence to show that he will save fools from the results of their folly.
-- Somerset Maugham, Then as Now, 1946
God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to defend it.
-- Daniel Webster
Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.
-- Thomas Jefferson
I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely his lips, follow me.
-- Giuseppe Garibaldi (1849), Italian Patriot and soldier, the man who united modern Italy
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
the valiant never taste death but once.
-- William Shakespeare ("Julius Caesar")
You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory - victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; without victory, there is no survival.
-- Sir Winston Churchill
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly, who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who, at the best, know the triumph of high achievement and who, at the worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
We've been looking for the enemy for several days now, We've finally found them. We're surrounded. That simplifies our problem of getting to these people and killing them.
-- Colonel Lewis B. Puller, USMC, during the Chosin Reservoir campaign in Korea, November 1950
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, design a building, conn a ship, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve an equation, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-- Robert Heinlein
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-- Benjamin Franklin.
In the end, more than the Athenians wanted freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life and they lost it all - security, comfort and freedom. When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free.
-- General Omar Bradley
How terrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.
-- Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of Great Britain, in a radio broadcast, 27 September 1938 referring to the German invasion of Czechoslovakia
My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is "peace for our time." Go home and get a nice quiet sleep
-- Neville Chamberlain, on the steps of 10 Downing Street, 30 September 1938, on his return from meeting Adolf Hitler at the notorious Munich Conference
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
-- Robert Lynd
Let us learn our lessons. Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on that strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. Antiquated War Offices, weak, incompetent or arrogant commanders, untrustworthy allies, hostile neutrals, malignant fortune, ugly surprise, awful miscalculations - all take their seat at the Council Board on the morrow of a declaration of war.
-- Sir Winston Churchill, My Early Life, 1930
-- Samuel Adams
Those who expect to reap the benefits of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
-- Thomas Paine
The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave...
-- Patrick Henry
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.
-- Thomas Jefferson
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.
-- Winston Churchill
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
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
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
-- George Orwell
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
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
-- Prime Minister Winston Churchill
To have the United States at our side was to me the greatest joy. Now at this very moment I knew the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all!...Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to powder.
-- Prime Minister Winston Churchill (after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor)
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.
-- General George Patton Jr
We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pissing Japs and clean out their nest, too. Before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit.
-- General George S. Patton, Jr (addressing to his troops before Operation Overlord, June 5, 1944)
Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it. The quicker they are whipped, the quicker we can go home. The shortest way home is through Berlin and Tokyo. And when we get to Berlin, I am personally going to shoot that paper hanging son-of-a-bitch Hitler. Just like I'd shoot a snake!
-- General George S. Patton, Jr (addressing his troops before Operation Overlord, June 5, 1944)
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
-- General George S. Patton, Jr
I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind.
-- General George S. Patton
War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
-- General William T. Sherman
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.
-- Allan Massie
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother; be never so vile. This day shall gentle his condition. And gentlemen in England now abed shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry, in King Henry V, act 4, sc. 3.
No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most generous and proudest of all virtues is true valor) and noble in its cause. No utility either more just or universal than the protection of the repose or defense of the greatness of one's country. The company and daily conversation of so many noble, young and active men cannot but be well-pleasing to you.
-- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
-- Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), U.S. Republican politician, president. Speech, 27 July 1920, Northampton, Massachusetts, accepting the Republican vice-presidential nomination.
Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
-- Vegetius (4th century), Roman military strategist.
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
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 Hemingway
When you men get home and face an anti-war protester, look him in the eyes and shake his hand. Then, wink at his girlfriend, because she knows she's dating a pussy.
-- Attributed to General Tommy Franks
That public virtue which among the ancients was denominated patriotism, is derived from a strong sense of our own interest in the preservation and prosperity of the free government of which we are members.
-- Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
If a man hasn't discovered something that he would die for, he isn't fit to live.
-- Martin Luther King, 23 Jun 1963
Peace purchased at the cost of any part of our national integrity is fit only for slaves, and even when purchased for such a price it is a delusion, for it cannot last.
-- Wm. E. Borah
War is the second worst activity of mankind, the worst being acquiescence in slavery.
-- Wm. F. Buckley Jr.
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
-- George Orwell
Bella suscipienda sunt ob eum causum, ut sine injuria in pace vivatur.
(Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.)
-- Cicero
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
-- Dolores Ibarruri, speaking against Generalissimo Franco's Fascists during the Spanish Civil War, 3 Sep 1936
A pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
-- Theodore Roosevelt, July 27 1917
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 take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
-- Patrick Henry, Mar 23 1775
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
-- Thomas Jefferson
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
-- Thomas Sowell
My path is clear here: I am to love my neighbor as myself, in the manner needed, in a practical way, in the midst of the fallen world, at my particular point of history. This is why I am not a pacifist. Pacifism in this poor world in which we live -- this lost world -- means that we desert the people who need our greatest help.
-- Francis Schaeffer, 1984
August 5, 1916
Dear Mrs. Meloney,
There are a good many things that America needs, if Santa Claus could only give them!
Here are a few of them:
1. That every molly-coddle, professional pacifist, and man who is "too proud to fight" when the nation's quarrel is just, should be exiled to those out of the way parts... where the spirit of manliness has not yet penetrated.
2. That every decent young man should have a family, job, and the military training which will enable him to keep this country out of war by making it dangerous for any ruthless military people to attack us.
3. That every youngster should have a good and wise mother; and every good woman a child for her arms.
4. That we may all of us become an efficient, patriotic, and nobly proud people - too proud either to inflict wrong or to endure it.
Good luck, Always yours
Theodore Roosevelt
In this world of sin and sorrow if virtue triumphs over vice it is not because it is virtuous, but because it has better and bigger guns; if honesty prevails over double dealing, it is not because it is honest, but because it has a stronger army more ably led; and if good overcomes evil it is not because it is good, but because it has a well-lined purse. It is well to have right on our side, but it is madness to forget that unless we have might as well it will avail us nothing. We must believe that God loves men of good will, but there is no evidence to show that he will save fools from the results of their folly.
-- Somerset Maugham, Then as Now, 1946
God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to defend it.
-- Daniel Webster
Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.
-- Thomas Jefferson
I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely his lips, follow me.
-- Giuseppe Garibaldi (1849), Italian Patriot and soldier, the man who united modern Italy
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
the valiant never taste death but once.
-- William Shakespeare ("Julius Caesar")
You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory - victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; without victory, there is no survival.
-- Sir Winston Churchill
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly, who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who, at the best, know the triumph of high achievement and who, at the worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
We've been looking for the enemy for several days now, We've finally found them. We're surrounded. That simplifies our problem of getting to these people and killing them.
-- Colonel Lewis B. Puller, USMC, during the Chosin Reservoir campaign in Korea, November 1950
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, design a building, conn a ship, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve an equation, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-- Robert Heinlein
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-- Benjamin Franklin.
In the end, more than the Athenians wanted freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life and they lost it all - security, comfort and freedom. When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free.
-- General Omar Bradley
How terrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.
-- Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of Great Britain, in a radio broadcast, 27 September 1938 referring to the German invasion of Czechoslovakia
My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is "peace for our time." Go home and get a nice quiet sleep
-- Neville Chamberlain, on the steps of 10 Downing Street, 30 September 1938, on his return from meeting Adolf Hitler at the notorious Munich Conference
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
-- Robert Lynd
Let us learn our lessons. Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on that strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. Antiquated War Offices, weak, incompetent or arrogant commanders, untrustworthy allies, hostile neutrals, malignant fortune, ugly surprise, awful miscalculations - all take their seat at the Council Board on the morrow of a declaration of war.
-- Sir Winston Churchill, My Early Life, 1930