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“It is not the critic who counts”

“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”

“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.”

“It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.”

“I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.”

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”