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Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking.... If we are to be sure of our liberty, we must be ready to fight for it.


General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright

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GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR A Cadmean victory. (The conquerors suffer as much as the conquered.)
GENERAL FERDINAND FOCH Victory is a thing of the will.
GENERAL FERDINAND FOCH Our peace must be a peace of victors, not of the vanquished.
GENERAL FERDINAND FOCH To the victors belong the spoils. (The spoils to the victors.)
GENERAL FERDINAND FOCH If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.
GENERAL GEORGE PATTON If the Lord should once more give us sunshine and I do not give you enough fighting, I will never as...
GENERAL JOHN STARK It is certain that the two World Wars in which I have participated would not have occurred had we be...
GENERAL GEORGE PATTON Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all tha...
GENERAL GEORGE PATTON There's only one proper way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet, of the l...
GENERAL GEORGE PATTON I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enem...
GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has...
GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on ...
GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
GENERAL GEORGE PATTON The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patrio...
GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
GENERAL GEORGE PATTON Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to...
GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.
GENERAL GEORGE PATTON If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have nev...
GENERAL GEORGE PATTON It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
GENERAL GEORGE PATTON I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, sayi...
GENERAL GEORGE PATTON A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldie...
GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR A Prayer For My SonBuild me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and br...
GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
GENERAL GEORGE PATTON A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.
GENERAL GEORGE PATTON The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Live Free Or Die; Death Is Not The Worst of Evils.
GENERAL JOHN STARK Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to di...
GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR I realize that advice is worth what it costs--that is, nothing.
GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence.
GENERAL GEORGE PATTON Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
GENERAL GEORGE PATTON If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself.
GENERAL GEORGE PATTON I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
GENERAL GEORGE PATTON If a man has done his best, what else is there?
GENERAL GEORGE PATTON