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“We seem to know that international wars tend not to stop with their formal "peace treaties." We seem not to have thought enough about the difference between the large official events of political and military history and their overflow both into recognized effects and into the lives of unofficial people who suffer them.”

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Author:Wendell Berry
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“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.”

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Author:John Stuart Mill
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“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.”

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Author:John Stuart Mill
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“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”

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Author:Richard Grenier
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“No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”

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Author:George S. Patton
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“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.”

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Author:George S. Patton
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“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”

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Author:George S. Patton
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“Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.”

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Book:The Happy Prince
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“We have met the enemy and they are ours.”

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Author:Oliver Hazard Perry
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“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

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Author:Winston Churchill
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“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”

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Author:Winston Churchill
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“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.”

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Book:Churchill: The Power of Words
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“All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America. Most of the states, of all ages ...have been founded in rapacity, usurpation, and injustice; so that in the contests recorded in history ...the military history of all nations being but a description of the wars and invasions of the mutual robbers and devastators of the human race.”

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Author:Ezra Stiles
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“Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”

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Book:Churchill: The Power of Words
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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.”

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Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Many opportunities have been lost and hundreds of valuable lives uselessly sacrificed for want of a strict observance of discipline. Its object is to enable an army to bring promptly into action the largest possible number of its men, in good order and under the control of their officers. Its effects are visible in all military history, which records the triumphs of discipline and courage far more frequently than those of numbers and resources.”

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Author:Robert E. Lee
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“Know the enemy and know yourself.”

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Author:Sun Tzu
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