"The primary reason for the existance of all the U.S. Armed Forces is to provide the military power to deter war. Should deterrence fail for reasons beyone our control, then these forces must be able to fight and win. There is no cheap way to do this. There also is no second prize in the business of war today, nor will there ever be." (General George H. Decker)
"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. This is the first lesson to be learned." (Thomas H. Huxley)
"Freedom! No word was ever spoken that has held out greater hope, demanded greater sacrifice, needed more to be nurtured, blessed more the giver, damned more it's destroyer or come closer to being God's will on earth. and I think that's worth fighting for, if necessary." (General Omar N. Bradley)
Nations fall and leave no traces and history records the cause of it. A single reason in all cases: They fell because their people were not fit. (Rudyard Kipling)
There is a tendency to forget that the most important social service a government can perform for its people is to keep them alive and free. (Sir John Slessor)
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it. (Daniel Webster)
"...people are very quick to quote the wonderful lines of the Declaration that relate to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and they should. They are lines that inspire people around the world. I want you to think about the bottom line of the Declaration of Independence, and I ask that you go and read that last line. [In support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of a Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.}" (John O. Marsh Jr.)
"The Nation today needs men who think in terms of service to their country and not in terms of their country's debt to them." (General Omar N. Bradley)
"....the soldier above all other prople prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war." (General Douglas MacArthur)
"If we desire peace, one of the most powerful institutions of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war." (George Washington)
"By making it universally reputable to bear arms and disgraceful to decline having a share in the performance of military duties, by keeping up in peace a well regulated and disciplined Militia, we shall take the fairest and best method to preserve for a long time to come, the happiness, dignity and Independence of our Country." (George Washington)
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." (Thomas Jefferson)
"Again and again we have owed peace to the fact that we were prepared for war." (Theodore Roosevelt)
"The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government, deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe." (General Andrew Jackson)
"It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it." (General Robert E. Lee)
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight; nothing he cares more about than his own personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free." (John Stuart Mill)
".....in the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoners chain." (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
"GOD AND THE SOLDIER WE ADORE, IN TIME OF DANGER, NOT BEFORE. THE DANGER GONE, AND ALL THINGS RIGHTED, GOD IS FORGOTTEN, THE SOLDIER SLIGHTED." (anoymous)
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