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Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

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.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

There is nothing moderate about an ideology of endless mass military slaughter abroad and ever-tightening authoritarianism and economic exploitation at home.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

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

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

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

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

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

The devastation in Gaza is unconscionable. We must urge an immediate ceasefire. The killing of Palestinians and Israelis must end. We must also take a hard look at nearly $4 billion a year in military aid to Israel. It is illegal for U.S. aid to support human rights violations.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence-death-is hidden from public view.

The best way to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon is a verifiable, tough agreement. A military solution will not fix it. It would temporarily slow down an Iranian nuclear program but it will not eliminate it.

Imperial powers do not forgive those who expose their weaknesses or make public the sordid and immoral inner workings of empire. Empires are fragile constructions. Their power is as much one of perception as of military strength. The virtues they claim to uphold and defend, usually in the name of their superior civilization, are a mask for pillage, the exploitation of cheap labor, indiscriminate violence and state terror.

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 we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.

This ingenious system, invented by a commercial people in the present century, provides a military fund which may exceed the resources of all the other states put together. It can only be exhausted by an eventual tax-deficit, which may be postponed for a considerable time by the commercial stimulus which industry and trade receive through the credit system.

God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.

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.

The truth is, that the military people are so important to our country.

Neither the military might nor the economic and technological development makes a nation great. It is made great by it’s citizens with Self Respect and Integrity ingrained in their lives.

The best is the enemy of the good.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.