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We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable.

Schools train people to be ignorant, with style. They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus. American schools* do not equip you to deal with things like logic; they don’t give you the criteria by which to judge between good and bad in any medium or format; and they prepare you to be a usable victim for military-industrial complex that needs manpower.

Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.

We have power… Our power isn’t in a political system, or a religious system, or in an economic system, or in a military system; these are authoritarian systems… they have power… but it’s not reality. The power of our intelligence, individually or collectively IS the power; this is the power that any industrial ruling class truly fears: clear coherent human beings.

You can’t destroy the polish national-consciousness or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves

In the military, I learned that ‘leadership’ means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments.

When I see the worsening degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentsia, I can’t help wondering if the day may yet come when the only thing that can save this country is a military coup.

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy.

There is no military solution to the war in Iraq. Our troops can help suppress the violence, but they cannot solve its root causes. And all the troops in the world won’t be able to force Shia, Sunni, and Kurd to sit down at a table, resolve their differences, and forge a lasting peace. In fact, adding more troops will only push this political settlement further and further into the future, as it tells the Iraqis that no matter how much of a mess they make, the American military will always be there to clean it up.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

In Europe, Socialism is just another political party. It just means that government takes over certain things like hospitals, prisons, military and schools that should not be run for profit.

If we had not driven them into hell… hell would have swallowed us.

A permanent peace cannot be prepared by threats but only by the honest attempt to create a mutual trust. However strong national armaments may be, they do not create military security for any nation nor do they guarantee the maintenance of peace.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

The more comfort the less courage there is.

I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.

Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.

When it comes to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, I will take no options off the table. … That includes all elements of American power: a political effort aimed at isolating Iran, a diplomatic effort to sustain our coalition and ensure that the Iranian program is monitored, an economic effort that imposes crippling sanctions and, yes, a military effort to be prepared for any contingency.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man’s history is the beating of war drums.

I don’t want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.

Get the hell out of my way!

The best form of defense is attack.

It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.

It is an axiom of political life that you never raise expectations, whether in a political or military campaign, because your defeats are then magnified and your victories discounted.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Get mad, then get over it.

Every man has got to know his limitations.

The immediate cause of World War III is the military preparation of it.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination. The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy’s forces, is the first-born son of war. Only great and general battles can produce great results. Blood is the price of victory.