"No soldier ever really survives a war." - Audie Murphy

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"They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy." - Zebulon Pike

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"They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards." - George S. Patton Jr.

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“Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.” - Clint Eastwood

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"To become an ace a fighter must have extraordinary eyesight, strength, and agility, a huntsman's eye, coolness in a pinch, calculated recklessness, a full measure of courage and occasional luck!" - Jimmy Doolittle

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"When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency." - Harry S. Truman

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"Ensure that no Marine who honorably wore the eagle, globe and anchor is lost to the Marine Corps family." - James L. Jones

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"If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back." - Ulysses S. Grant

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"War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support." - Colin Powell

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"The mark of a great shiphandler is never getting into situations that require great shiphandling." - Ernest King

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"My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military." - Smedley Butler

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"We have reached an important point when the end begins to come into view." - William Westmoreland

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"Better to fight for something than live for nothing." - George S. Patton

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"The potential for the next Pearl Harbor could very well be a cyber-attack." - Leon Panetta

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"It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle." - Prescott Bush

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"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on." - Ulysses S. Grant

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"Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind." - Douglas MacArthur

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"Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections." - Brent Scowcroft

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"I'm always willing to accept change, just as long as it isn't change for the sake of change. If that change will result in a better way of doing things, then I'm all for it." - James Van Fleet

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"I have little patience with people who take the Bill of Rights for granted. The Bill of Rights, contained in the first ten amendments to the Constitution, is every American's guarantee of freedom." - Harry S. Truman

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"At least we're getting the kind of experience we need for the next war." - Allen Dulles

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"The deadliest weapon in the world is a MARINE and his rifle!" - John J. Pershing

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"Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die." - David Hackworth

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"I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes." - Douglas MacArthur

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"Once you start a war, you have to win." - G. Gordon Liddy

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"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." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.” - Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.

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"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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"Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster." - Chuck Hagel

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"And freedom is what America means to the world." - Audie Murphy

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