“To foster the people's willing spirit is often as important as to possess the more concrete forms of power.” PeopleImportantFormSpiritMilitaryWillingConcrete Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“This country of ours has more wealth than any nation, but that's not what makes us rich. We have the most powerful military on Earth, but that's not what makes us strong. Our universities and our culture are the envy of the world, but that's not what keeps the world coming to our shores. Instead, it is that American spirit - that American promise - that pushes us forward even when the path is uncertain; that binds us together in spite of our differences; that makes us fix our eye not on what is seen, but what is unseen, that better place around the bend.” WorldCountryEyeEarthTogetherSpiritCultureStrongNationsDifferencesWealthPowerfulPathRichMilitaryPromiseUniversityEnvySpiteMost PowerfulShoreUncertainUnseenBetter PlaceAmerican SpiritAround The Bend Author:Barack Obama
“They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that, it comes down to if the general is favored by fate and the spirits.” IfsLongRealLastsSpiritFightingFiveFatePlansMinutesMilitaryBattleFive Minutes Author:Paolo Bacigalupi
“The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible; and the same remedy will make us so.” PeopleMenMadeCountryHandsCareAgeLawDeathSpiritResponsibilityMilitaryDutyStandardsStandingArmySoldierEvery ManOppressionGreekEnginesRulersRemedyInvincible Book:Jefferson: Political Writings Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“It is not a struggle merely of economic theories, or forms of government or of military power. At issue is the true nature of man. Either man is the creature whom the psalmist described as a little lower than the angels ... or man is a soulless, animated machine to be enslaved, used and consumed by the state for its own glorification. It is, therefore, a struggle which goes to the roots of the human spirit, and its shadow falls across the long sweep of man's destiny.” MenHumansLittlesLongStatesGovernmentFormUsedSpiritFallDestinyStruggleIssuesEconomicMilitaryTheoryCreaturesAngelShadowRootsMachinesHuman SpiritConsumedAnimatedTrue NatureForms Of GovernmentNature Of ManMilitary PowerSoullessGlorificationEconomic Theory Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower