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“There are 3 elements essential in the matters of the State, Food, Military equipment, and Confidence of the people in the ruler. Of these 3, Military Equipment is the least important, Food being the 2nd important, and Confidence of the people being the MOST important. All men rather die of starvation than in war, but nevertheless all men do die of old age. Lacking in Confidence from the people, a state cannot survive.”

People Men Important War Matter States Age Dies Military Confidence Essentials Elements Old Age Rulers Nevertheless Lacking Equipment Starvation Military Equipment

Author:Confucius

“We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and beget action; they kill and revive, corrupt and cure. The "men-of-words"- priests, prophets, intellectuals- have played a more decisive role in history than military leaders, statesmen, and businessmen.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“it so often happens that, when men are convinced that they have to die, a desire to bear themselves well and to leave life's stage with dignity conquers all other sensations.”

Men Wells Happens Desire Dies Stage Military Bears Dignity Convinced Conquer Sensations

Book:Savrola: a tale of the revolution in Laurania

Source: Savrola: a tale of the revolution in Laurania

“I want a military funeral when I diethe bugler, the flag on the casket, the ceremonial firing squad, the hallowed ground.... It will be a way of achieving what I've always wanted more than anythingsomething I could have had, if only I'd managed to get myself killed in the war.... The unqualified approval of my community.”

Ifs Way Want War Wanted Dies Community Achieve Military Funeral Flags Approval Firing Squad Unqualified Caskets Hallowed Ground

Book:Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

Source: Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

“A little while ago I visited Omaha Beach for the second time in my life. In the intervening 26 years, nearly 20,000 tides had come and gone and little remains visible of the greatest military landing in man's history of endless warring. What's to be seen is mostly in a superb museum and a panoramic cemetery. The cemetery memorializes with dignity and grandeur the event and the dead, and moves one deeply. Before they die less precipitously and/or in lesser purpose, Americans who can should visit World War II's Normandy Beach. Such seeing and remembering helps a man's perspective.”

“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”

Source: By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades

“The military taught me the importance of getting something done in a timely manner and the importance of completing a mission on time. My lieutenant would say, 'If you don't, you die.' In many ways, life is the same. If you don't pay attention to a timeline, you lose out on the ability to accomplish the task at hand.”

Ifs Way Done Hands Life Is Dies Loses Ability Pay Attention Military Taught Tasks Importance Accomplish Missions Pay Attention Timely Completing Lieutenants Timelines Task At Hand

Author:Don Young

“God forbid that Americans earning, say, more than $1 million a year be asked to pony up a little more in taxes to support a larger military at a time when, we are told over and over, the country is in the middle of a war on terror. Millionaires can't be asked to sacrifice even just a little bit. No, they deserve to have their taxes cut while others fight and die.”

Years Littles War Country Dies Fighting Bits Millions Support Cutting Sacrifice Middle Military Taxes Little Bit Deserve Terror Earning Millionaire War On Terror Tax Cuts Ponies

Author:E. J. Dionne

“Being a senior in high school means you're not only getting closer to adulthood, but also ready to start thinking about your dreams and aspirations, whether that's applying for college, joining the military, or seeing the world. It's never too early to start thinking of your future, so use these high school senior year quotes about following dreams to inspire yourself and those around. Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.”

“As a human being with notoriety and a big mouth, I've felt most threatened during the first Bush Administration. Whenever there's a Bush in the White House, many people die, and the rest of us are threatened. I just didn't think it would happen quite so quickly. The so-called USA Patriot Act, and the announcement of trying people in military tribunals if Bush or Rumsfeld's or Ashcroft's people think they somehow qualify as terrorists, basically, this is McCarthyism run amok.”

“You could be a Green Beret and a kid could jump out from behind a building and hit you with a rock. No matter how tough you become in the military, there's a way to die: there's nothing safe about it.”

Way Matter Kids Dies Behinds Rocks Military Building Safe Tough Green Green Beret

Author:Ice T

“When men find they must inevitably perish, they willingly resolve to die with their comrades and with their arms in their hands.”

Men Hands Dies Military Arms Resolve Comrade

Author:Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

“If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.”

Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr

“I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”

“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.”

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