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"You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself."
     - Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf (1934 - )

"I am quite confident that in the foreseeable future armed conflict will not take the form of huge land armies facing each other across extended battle lines, as they did in World War I and World War II or, for that matter, as they would have if NATO had faced the Warsaw Pact on the field of battle."
     - Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf (1934 - )

"As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational art, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that he's a great military man-I want you to know that."
     - Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf (1934 - ) When asked in 1991 by a reporter what his impressions were of Saddam Hussein as a military strategist.

"We need to destroy not attack, not damage, not surround. I want to destroy the Republican Guard"
     - Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf (1934 - )

"I feel that retired generals should never miss an opportunity to remain silent concerning matters for which they are no longer responsible."
     - Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf (1934 - )

"If we do go to war, psychological operations are going to be absolutely a critical, critical part of any campaign that we must get involved in."
     - Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf (1934 - )

"The mothers and fathers of America will give you their sons and daughters...with the confidence in you that you will not needlessly waste their lives. And you dare not. That's the burden the mantle of leadership places upon you. You could be the person who gives the orders that will bring about the deaths of thousands and thousands of young men and women. It is an awesome responsibility. You cannot fail. You dare not fail..."
    - Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf (1934 - ) From a speech in Eisenhower Hall Theater to the Corps of Cadets on 15 May 1991

"....If you leave here with the word DUTY implanted in your mind; if you leave here with the word HONOR carved in your soul; if you leave here with love of COUNTRY stamped on your heart, then you will be a twenty-first century leader worthy...of the great privilege and honor...of leading...the sons and daughters of America..."
    - Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf (1934 - ) From a speech in Eisenhower Hall Theater to the Corps of Cadets on 15 May 1991

"Quo Fas et Gloria Ducunt"
("Where Right and Glory Lead")
    - Motto of the Royal Engineers

"Who dares, wins"
    - SAS (Special Air Service) Creed

"Per mare per terram"
 ("By sea, by land")
    - Motto of the Royal Marines

" Utrinque Paratus "
("Ready For Anything")
    - Motto of the British Parachute Regiment "The Paras"

"WGlaine ár gcroí.  Neart ár ngéag.  Agus beart de réir ár mbriathar."
 (The cleanliness of our hearts.  The strength of our limbs.  And our commitment to our promise.
    - Motto of the Irish Defence Forces Sciathán Fianóglach an Airm (Army Ranger Wing) 

"Not by strength, but by guile"
    - Motto of the British Special Boat Service (SBS)

"De Oppresso Libre"
("Liberate from Oppression")
    - Motto of the U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Berets)

"Schwert der Demokratie"
("'Sword of Democracy")
    - Motto of the Austrian Gendarmerie Einsatz Kommando (GEK) 

"The only tactical principal not subject to change, is to inflict the maximum amount of wounds, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time."
    - Gen. George S. Patton (1885 - 1945)

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You win the war by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country!"
     - Gen. George S. Patton (1885 - 1945)

"Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time. "
     - Gen. George S. Patton (1885 - 1945)

"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."
     - Gen. George S. Patton (1885 - 1945)

"If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, how are you going to get them to die for their country?"
     - Gen. George S. Patton (1885 - 1945)

"A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood."
     - Gen. George S. Patton (1885 - 1945)

"If a man does his best, what else is there?"
     - Gen. George S. Patton (1885 - 1945)

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
     - Gen. George S. Patton (1885 - 1945)


"Be an example to your men, in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don't in your endurance of fatigue and privation. Always be tactful and well mannered and teach your subordinates to do the same. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to hide."
     - Field Marshall Erwin Rommel (1891-1944)

"So long as one isn't carrying ones head under one's arm, things aren't too bad."
     - Field Marshall Erwin Rommel (1891-1944)

"One must not judge everyone in the world by his qualities as a soldier: otherwise we should have no civilization."
     - Field Marshall Erwin Rommel (1891-1944)

"In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it."
     - Field Marshall Erwin Rommel (1891-1944)

"The art of concentrating strength at one point, forcing a breakthrough, rolling up and securing the flanks on either side, and then penetrating like lightning deep into his rear, before the enemy has time to react."
     - Field Marshall Erwin Rommel (1891-1944)

"The commander must try, above all, to establish personal and comradely contact with his men, but without giving away an inch of his authority."
     - Field Marshall Erwin Rommel (1891-1944)

"In a man to man fight the winner is the one who puts an extra round in his magazine" 
     - Field Marshall Erwin Rommel
(1891-1944)

"I would rather he had given me one more division"
     - Field Marshall Erwin Rommel
(1891-1944)

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat."
    - Sun Tzu - The Art Of War (500 BC)

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
      -Sun Tzu - The Art Of War (500 BC)

"In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military."
     - General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)

"In war there is no substitute for victory."
     - General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)

"It is fatal to enter a war without the will to win it."
      - General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)

"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction."
      - General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)

"I Shall Return"
      - General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)

"Guns will make us powerful, butter will only make us fat."
      - Hermann Goering

"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong."
      - Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778)

"A witty saying proves nothing."
      - Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778)

"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
     - Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)

"A clever man commits no minor blunders."
     - Goethe (1749-1832)

"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."
     - Goethe (1749-1832)

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
     - Edmund Burke - Irish orator, philosopher, & politician (1729 - 1797)

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
    - Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
    - Plato (427-347 B.C.)

"What luck for the rulers that men do not think!"
    -  Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)

"Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others experience"
     - Otto Von Bismarck

"Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war."
     - Otto Von Bismarck

"Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness."
     - Otto Von Bismarck

"People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election."
     - Otto Von Bismarck

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
    - George Santayana (1863-1952)

"Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair."  
    - George Burns (1896-1996)

"Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the dogs of war."
     - William Shakespeare ~ Spoken by Antony in Julius Caeser (Act 3 Scene 1) 

"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
For he today that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition.
And gentlemen in England now abed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."
     - William Shakespeare ~ Spoken by King Henry  in King Henry V, (Act 4 Scene 3)

"Cowards die many times before their death; the valiant never taste death but once."
     William Shakespeare ~ Julius Caesar (Act 2 Scene 2)

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
     - Confucius

"The cautious seldom err."
     - Confucius

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance."
     - Confucius

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed, by so many,  to so few."
     - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) commenting on the RAF pilots

"Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others. "
     - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
     - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"If you are going through hell, keep going."
     - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."
     - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"The greatest leader in the world could never win a campaign unless he understood the men he had to lead."
     - General Omar Bradley

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
     - John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)

"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."
      - Gen. Ulysses S. Grant (1822 - 1885)

"It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it."
     - Gen. Robert E. Lee (1807 - 1870)

"I had rather die than be whipped."
     - J.E.B. Stuart

"War is hell."
     - William Tecumseh Sherman

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
     - Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
     - Abraham Lincoln

"Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties."
     - Abraham Lincoln

"My son, seek thee out a kingdom equal to thyself; Macedonia has not room for thee."
     - Philip of Macedonia to Alexander (the Great)

"Big Brother is watching you. "
     - George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four

"I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again."
     - Bart Simpson

"A lady came up to me on the street and pointed to my suede jacket. "You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?" she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, "I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have to kill you too."
     - Jake Johanson

"Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work. "
     - Al Capp

"Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler. "
     - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
     - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
     - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
     - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
     - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Diligence is the mother of good luck. "
     - Benjamin Franklin  (1706-1790)

"Well done is better than well said."
     - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

"A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies. "
      - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
     - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. "
     - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
     - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."
     - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"Always do what you are afraid to do. "
      - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. "
      - Theodore Roosevelt

"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do. "
     - Dale Carnegie

"No...No try! Do, or do not. There is no try. "
     - Yoda - Jedi Master

"A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. "
     - Mark Twain

"Nature has given us two eyes, two ears, and but one tongue, to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak."
     - Socrates

"Do not forget your dogs of war, your big guns, which are the most-to-be respected arguments of the rights of kings."
     - Frederick the Great

"We make war that we may live in peace. "
     - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

"Wit is educated insolence."
     - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
     - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

 "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
     - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
     - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"Let him who desires peace prepare for war."
     -Vegetius (4th century), Roman military strategist.

"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others."
     - Niccolò Machiavelli

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
     - John F. Kennedy

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
     - H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
     - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
     - Galileo Galilei

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
     - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems."
     - Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode"

"Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'."
     - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"We have art to save ourselves from the truth."
     - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."
     - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."
     - Unknown

"There is no problem that cannot be solved by the use of high explosives."
     -  Unknown

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
     - Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down."
     - Jimmy Durante

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
     - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
     - Mario Andretti

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die."
     - Mel Brooks

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
     - George Orwell

"I am become death, shatterer of worlds."
     - Robert J. Oppenheimer (1904-1967) (citing from the Bhagavad Gita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion)

"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate."
     - Thomas Jones

"The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy."
     - Carl Von Clausewitz (1780-1831)

"Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity. If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles."
    - Carl Von Clausewitz (1780-1831)


"If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles."
     - Carl Von Clausewitz (1780-1831)

"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."
     - Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), "The Prince"

"Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last."
     - Marcus Aurelius

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..."
     - Last words of General John B. Sedgwick, 1864

"Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees."
     -  Last words of Gen. Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, 10 May 1863.

"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. "
     - Last words of Pancho Villa

"Now comes the mystery. "
     - Last words of Henry Ward Beecher