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'"The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave..." Patrick Henry',
'"Victory belongs to the most persevering." Napoleon Bonaparte ',
'"From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots." Thomas Jefferson ',
'"We have met the enemy and they are ours!" Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, 1813 ',
'"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 Stewart Mill ',
'"War is cruelty. There’s no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over." William Tecumseh Sherman ',
'"Freedom isn’t free." Anonymous ',
'"Never give in never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." Winston Churchill ',
'"If it moves, salute it; if it doesn’t move, pick it up; and if you can’t pick it up, paint it." Anonymous (1940’s saying) ',
'"The ’eathen in ’is blindness must end where ’e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!" Rudyard Kipling ',
'"Soldiers are men...most apt for all manner of services and best able to support and endure the infinite toils and continual hazards of war." Henry Knyvett ',
'"A soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of the general." Adapted from Henry G. Bohn ',
'"Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats." Josephus Daniels ',
'"Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other." Napoleon I ',
'"A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living." John F. Kennedy ',
'"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his." George Patton ',
'"Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it." Will Rogers ',
'"Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war." Thucydides ',
'"Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them." Napoleon Bonaparte ',
'"We make war that we may live in peace." Aristotle ',
'"In war there is no substitute for victory." General Douglas MacArthur ',
'"Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war." Ernest Miller Hemmingway ',
'"Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision." Blake Clark ',
'"Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier." Samuel Johnson ',
'"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." George Orwell ',
'"Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking." Ferdinand Foch at the Battle of the Marne ',
'"No plan survives contact with the enemy." Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke',
'"The chief incalculable in war is the human will." B.H. Liddell Hart',
'"The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of ’targets’ to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting." Martin Van Creveld',
'"The center of gravity is "those characteristics, capabilities, or localities from which a military force derives its freedom of action, physical strength, or will to fight."" DOD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms',
'"To see the right and not to do it is cowardice." Confucius (551-478 B.C.)',
'"War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms." Machiavelli, "The Prince"',
'"Nine-tenths of tactics are certain and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pond and that is the test of generals. It can only be ensured by instinct, sharpened by thought practicing the stroke so often at the crisis it is as natural as a reflex." T.E. Lawrence, "The Science of Guerrilla Warfare"',
'"The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it." Winston Churchill',
'"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." Gen. Douglas MacAurthur, 1952',
'"Nothing makes a man more aware of his capabilities and of his limitations than those moments when he must push aside all the familiar defenses of ego and vanity, and accept reality by staring, with the fear that is normal to a man in combat, into the face of Death." Major Robert S. Johnson, USAAF',
'"Anybody who doesn’t have fear is an idiot. It’s just that you must make the fear work for you. Hell, when somebody shot at me, it made me madder than hell, and all I wanted to do was shoot back." General Robin Olds, USAF.',
'"There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time." General George S. Patton, Jr.',
'"In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military." Douglas MacArthur, General of the Army',
'"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man 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',
'"War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want." General William T. Sherman',
'"The morale of the soldier is the greatest single factor in war." Field marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery',
'"You must love soldiers in order to understand them, and understand them in order to lead them." Henri Turenne',
'"They taught me that no man could be their leader except he ate the ranks’ food, wore their clothes, lived level with them, and yet appeared better in himself." T.E. Lawrence, "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom"',
'"Hit the other fellow, as quick as you can, and as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain’t lookin’." Unrecorded British sergeant-major, (On the definition of strategy)',
'"Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. ... This is the only way to become a great general and master the secrets of the art of war. ..." Napoleon Bonaparte, "Military Maxims of Napoleon"',
'"Strategy is the art of making use of time and space." Napoleon Bonaparte',
'"The starting point for the understanding of war is the understanding of human nature." S.L.A. Marshall, Men Against Fire',
'"Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms, arms, dead horses, and men lying on roads -- they are not there accidentally." Soviet infantry manual, issued in the 1930s',
'"One of the serious problems in planning the fight against American doctrine, is that the Americans do not read their manuals, nor do they feel any obligation to follow their doctrine..." - From a Soviet junior officer’s notebook',
'"The best tank terrain is that without anti-tank weapons." - Russian military doctrine',
'"The reason the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices it on a daily basis." - from a post-war debriefing of a German General ',
'"We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn in this life that we tend to meet any situation by reorganizing. And a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization." -Wrongly attributed to Petronius Arbiter, Roman hedonist, about 60 A.D. It is not found anywhere in his works. The earliest known occurrence seems to be in the British occupation force in Germany after WWII. The quote is believed to be a fabrication from this time. ',
'"I do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding." French ambassador to New Zealand Jacques le Blanc, regarding press coverage of France’s nuclear weapons tests in the Pacific ',
'"Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait." - A. Whitney Brown ',
'"Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed." - General Norman Cota: Omaha Beach, 1944 ',
'"Onward we stagger, and if the tanks come, may God help the tanks." - Col. William O. Darby, U.S. Rangers ',
'"I never trust a fighting man who doesn’t smoke or drink." - Admiral William "Bull" Halsey ',
'"I was provided with addtional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version." Colonel Oliver North, from his Iran-Contra testimony ',
'"All right, they’re on our left, they’re on our right, they’re in front of us, they’re behind us...they can’t get away this time" - Lt Gen Lewis B. Puller, USMC ',
'"Just drive down that road, until you get blown up." - General George Patton, about reconnaissance troops ',
'"We’re surrounded. That simplifies the problem." - Chesty Puller, USMC ',
'"The Lybian army is capable of destroying America and breaking its nose." - Muammar Qaddafi ',
'"When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind." - George Bernard Shaw ',
'"The Pope! how many divisions has he got?" - Stalin In 1935, a French visitor asked Soviet leader Josef Stalin if he thought Pope Pius XI might prove to be an ally.',
'"There is no room in war for delicate machinery." - Archibald Wavell, British general ',
'"Be merciful my child! Which would our Lord say is more valuable: the life of a miserable sinner or a tank?"
"Well a tank of course!"
"Right. Thanks be to God for letting thy lamb hear the True Word that giveth the Tank Police the power which it needs to carry on the struggle." - Masamune Shirow’s Dominion Tank Police',
'"If we come to a minefield, our infantry attacks exactly as it were not there." - Marshall Geogi Zhukov to General Eisenhower, 1945 ',
'Just after you report "Redcon 1" for your qualification run, you will realize that you desperately need to take a leak. - Murphy’s Laws of Armor',
'The fuel truck will run out of fuel just before he gets to your tank. You will run out of fuel before he returns. - Murphy’s Laws of Armor',
'Tanks don’t float. - Murphy’s Laws of Armor',
'If a supply sergeant is given a choice between death and going to the field with his unit, he will ask for a few minutes to "Think it over." - Murphy’s Laws of Armor',
'Attempting to help recover a mired tank will only result in your tank becoming mired also. - Murphy’s Laws of Armor',
'The primary purpose of an operations order is to ensure that all blame falls on the line units. For this reason, the staff will not publish an operations order until after the exercise is completed. - Murphy’s Laws of Armor',
'Night vision devices will only fail at night. They will function per-fectly once the sun rises. - Murphy’s Laws of Armor',
'The dirtier and more tired you are, the less appreciative you become of "constructive criticism" from somebody in a pristine uniform. - Murphy’s Laws of Armor',
'The heater on your tank will fail in October. The part to repair it will arrive in April. - Murphy’s Laws of Armor',
'No matter how minor the ailment, a visit to the medics will result in an I.V. Arguing with the medics about this will result in your being evacuated in a neck brace and back board (in addition to the I.V.). - Murphy’s Laws of Armor',
'When loading the main gun, remember: "pointy end first." - Murphy’s Laws of Armor',
'The only times you will throw a track are: a. At night, b. in the rain, c. during the movement back to garrison, or d. one hour after you installed the new ones. - Murphy’s Laws of Armor',
'Your vehicle will go NMC right after the contact team leaves the AO. - Murphy’s Laws of Armor',
'All infantry fighting vehicles don’tlook alike. - Murphy’s Laws of Armor',
'Shaking trees to your front mean that you are being hunted by helicopters. - Murphy’s Laws of Armor',
'When you are told your engineer support was needed elsewhere, the bridge will be out. - Murphy’s Laws of Armor',
'The exercise will finish and you’ll get back to garrison just afterthe wash rack closes. - Murphy’s Laws of Armor',
'If all else fails, shoot at the muzzle flashes - the larger ones are the dangerous ones, the smaller ones are infantry. - Murphy’s Laws of Armor',
'The infantry muzzle flashes you ignore are covering an anti-tank team setting up. - Murphy’s Laws of Armor',
'"Rebel yells" are notproper FM radio procedure after a successful Table VIII shoot. - Murphy’s Laws of Armor',
'XO math: 3 pacs on the ground + no fueler + 2 deadlines = 100% FMC. - Murphy’s Laws of Armor',
'Close air support is safest from far away. - Murphy’s Laws of Armor',
'Proving that three feet of frontal armor protection will defend against any threat is probably best demonstrated on someone else’s track. - Murphy’s Laws of Armor',
'Hearing an "Aw, sh**" soon after an "on-the-waaay!" means you’re probably not getting that promotion. - Murphy’s Laws of Armor',
'Tanks are very easy to see unless you’re dismounted and they’re backing up. - Murphy’s Laws of Armor',
'The one time you skip the firing circuit test is when you have the misfire. - Murphy’s Laws of Armor',
'"GUNNER, SABOT, SNIPER" is not an appropriate use of am-munition. - Murphy’s Laws of Armor',
'It is cruel to tell NBC types "Damn, that Fox looks like a BMP!" - particularly when live rounds are being issued. - Murphy’s Laws of Armor',
'Blackout drive + autobahn + 0345 = polizei. - Murphy’s Laws of Armor',
'Unsecured turrets will only swing freely mid-way through a rail tunnel. - Murphy’s Laws of Armor',
'When doing a gunnery, the tank is always operational until you get to the ready line. - Murphy’s Laws of Armor',
'If you are promised "downtime," what they really mean is: You will be breaking track. - Murphy’s Laws of Armor',
'First sergeant math: Buy Gatorade for $1.49 each and sell for $1.00 each - with the profits going to the unit fund. - Murphy’s Laws of Armor',
'"There’s nothing sacrosanct about a hotel with a bunch of journalists in it." - LTGEN Bernard E. Trainor, USMC (ret.)'
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