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I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Courage is grace under pressure.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Urge all of your men to pray, not alone in church, but everywhere. Pray when driving. Pray when fighting. Pray alone. Pray with others. Pray by night and pray by day. Pray for the cessation of immoderate rains, for good weather for Battle.Pray for the defeat of our wicked enemy whose banner is injustice and whose good is oppression. Pray for victory. Pray for our Army, and Pray for Peace. We must march together, all out for God.

If you look at how the federal government spends our money, it’s an insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army.

No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.

I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country can distinguish a mortar from a motor; a gun from a howitzer; a guerrilla from a gorilla, although a great many resemble the latter.

In battles two things are usually required of the Commander-in-Chief: to make a good plan for his army and, secondly, to keep a strong reserve.

Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.

The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power – power in its most despotic exercise – absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms – and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses.

Drinking is the soldier’s pleasure.

The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil.

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

When the child has reached manhood he is thoroughly saturated with the belief that he is chosen by the Lord himself to defend his country against the attack or invasion of any foreigner. It is for that purpose that we are clamoring for a greater army and navy, more battleships and ammunition.

The government is a functionary of the corporations – and there’s nothing new about that. You can find people in the 1930s talking about the army basically working for Wall Street in all of these countries [it invades].

Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage, and slavery.

Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts – a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

Get the hell out of my way!

A rational army would run away.

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them.

… I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.

A study of Disease-of Pestilences methodically prepared and deliberately launched upon man and beast-is certainly being pursue in the laboratories of more than one great country. Blight to destroy crops, Anthrax to slay horses and cattle, Plague to poison not armies but whole districts – such are the lines along which military science is remorselessly advancing.

The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought… Europe and large parts of Asia and Africa became one vast battlefield on which after years of struggle not armies but nations broke and ran. When all was over, Torture and Cannibalism were the only two expedients that the civilized, scientific, Christian States had been able to deny themselves: and they were of doubtful utility.