"Our flag does not fly because the wind moves it. It flies with the last breath of each soldier who died protecting it." - Unknown

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"The Marines don't have any race problems. They treat everybody like they're black." - Daniel James Jr.

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"It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped." - William T. Sherman

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"The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government." - Taylor Branch

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"It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out." - Chuck Hagel

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"It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. They do not know its horrors. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils." - Stonewall Jackson

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"Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality." - James A. Garfield

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"The first and absolute requirement of strategic air power in this war was control of the air in order to carry out sustained operations without prohibitive losses." - Carl Andrew Spaatz

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"Conflict follows wrongdoing as surely as flies follow the herd." - Doc Holliday

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"The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude." - Steve Buyer

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"A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others." - Douglas MacArthur

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“Great powers don’t get angry, great powers don’t make decisions hastily in a crisis.” - John Allen

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"We will breakfast together here and dine together in hell." - Richard S. Ewell

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"The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't." - Jimmy Doolittle

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"Hit hard, hit fast and hit often." - William Halsey

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"You are part of the world's most feared and trusted force. Engage your brain before you engage your weapon." - James Mattis

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"We now have a lack of readiness that is quite scary." - Jeb Bush

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"Tracers work both ways." - U.S. Army Ordnance

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"It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat." - George McGovern

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"The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake." - Dean Rusk

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"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln

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"It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it will not be fought on U.S. soil." - Chester W. Nimitz

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"The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front." - Ulysses S. Grant

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"Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God." - John Tyler

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"I was with a special services unit in the Korean war, and when I got out, the biggest thing I got was a GI scholarship." - Chuck Feeney

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"Coffee tastes better if the latrines are dug downstream from an encampment." - Army Field Regulations

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"Fighting battles is like courting girls: those who make the most pretensions and are boldest usually win." - Rutherford B. Hayes

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"Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend." - Warren G. Harding

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"We have learned that peace and well-being are indivisible and that our peace and well-being cannot be purchased at the price of peace or the well-being of any other country." - James F. Byrnes

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