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| Topic: Love & thanks ~ to our beloved Soldiers... - part 2 | |
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by Firefall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trvtMSoW7dM When it all goes crazy and the thrill is gone When the days get rainy and the nights get long When you get that feelin you were born to lose Starin' at your ceiling feelin' the blues 
When there's so much trouble that you want to cry When your love has crumbled and you don't know why When your hopes are fading and they can't be found Dreams have left you waiting friends let you down 
Well just remember I love you 
And it'll be all right 
Just remember I love you 
All that I can say just remember I love you 
Maybe all your blues will fade away
When you need a lover and you're down so low And you start to wonder but you never know When it seems like sorrow is your only friend Knowing that tomorrow you'll feel this way again When the blues come cryin' at the break of dawn When the rain keeps fallin' but the rainbow's gone When you feel like cryin' but the tears won't come Then your dreams are dyin' when you're on the run Just remember I love you And it'll be all right Just remember I love you All that I can say just remember I love you
Maybe all your blues will wash away
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God Bless America, U-S-A
It started in the Revolution and continued through the Civil War In World War One, she was there to greet our boys back on the shore In World War Two when we dropped the bomb, then onto Korea and Vietnam Waving proudly for all to see --- our Stars And Stripes, our Old Glory You see them flying on the poles and they mark every grave For every soldier that perished for a country they fought to save And those who seek to burn her never tasted the agony of war They just don't understand what she really does stand for: She stands for freedom and for justice and the right to live in peace She stands for unity among all nations and for future wars to cease >From the tip of Maine across fruited plains to Californ-i-a We can all rejoice and say in one voice, "We love the U-S-A!"
It's just a simple story of honor, pride, and glory And a bond of courage and trust to stand for the one who stood for us A true image of democracy for generations through and through As we walk hand-in-hand across this great land --- God Bless the Red, White, and Blue
That flag, she's seen us through it all through those conflicts in the past We stood tall with us in victory and mourned with us at half-mast How could anyone ever take a flame and try to erase every name Of every soldier that paved the way for us to live, as one, in the U-S-A
She stands for liberty and bravery and the rights of all mankind The hopes and dreams of everyone and the time we all can find That everyone, everywhere can stand and proudly say "God Bless America, "God Bless America, "God Bless America, U-S-A"
By Thomas Beechey |
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God Save Our Country
God save our country! 
Please lift us up in these times of sorrow. Help us Lord to keep our sights on you for a brighter tomorrow.
Lord please keep us all praying on bended knees.
So we will stay humble while our sons and daughters are fighting overseas.
God save our country! Please raise our hopes and diminish our fears. God please keep us strong through all the death and tears. Help us Lord to be there for everyone both big and small. Because we don't know when anyone of us might fall.
God save our country! Please keep our land safe and free.
Help us Lord to be all that you would have us to be. Lord, touch our sick ones and lift their spirits too. God please direct us to do as you would have us to do.
God save our country! Please protect our little ones. Let them grow freely and touch their sweet young souls. Send your angels down from heaven to keep them laughing and happy too. They are our future, so they need all our love to see them through.
God save our country! Please be with our leaders as they make decisions everyday! God help us to never be indifferent because we know Lord that is not your way. God we pray that you will heal our souls and keep the love for our sisters and brothers. Please help us to keep our empathy in our hearts always for each other!
By Suzanne Lauder |
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Emperor Marcus Aurelius Quotes Marcus Aurelius Quotations (Marcus Aelius Aurelius Antoninus) Originally named Marcus Annius Verus Roman Emperor 121-180. B.C (click here to find out more about Marcus Aurelius, from Infoplease.com) I can't guarantee that these quotations are correct or true, but I have tried to verify as many of the quotes from Marcus Aurelius as possible. Please contact me if you find any errors in the Marcus Aurelius quotes, have some additional information about the quotes or if you know any quotations from Marcus Aurelius that's not listed here. Military Related quotations from Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor "Anger cannot be dishonest." - Marcus Aurelius "Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last." - Marcus Aurelius "The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious." - Marcus Aurelius "Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears." - Marcus Aurelius "The act of dying is one of the acts of life." - Marcus Aurelius "A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions." - Marcus Aurelius |
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Otto von Bismarck Quotes/Quotations German statesman, known as the Iron Chancellor 1815–98 I can't guarantee that these quotations are correct or true, but I have tried to verify as many of the Bismarck quotes as possible. Please contact me if you find any errors in the quotes from Bismarck, have some additional information about the quotes or if you know any quotations from Otto von Bismarck that's not listed here. Enjoy the Quotes/Quotations from Otto Von Bismarck "Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others experience" - Otto Von Bismarck "Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war." -Otto Von Bismarck "Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness." -Otto Von Bismarck "People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election." -Otto Von Bismarck "Politics is not an exact science." -Otto Von Bismarck "The main thing is to make history, not to write it." -Otto Von Bismarck "The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia." -Otto Von Bismarck "When you want to fool the world, tell the truth." -Otto Von Bismarck "Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied." -Otto Von Bismarck "You can do everything with bayonets, but you are not able to sit on them" -Otto Von Bismarck "You can't destroy the polish national-consciousness or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves" -Otto Von Bismarck |
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Omar N. Bradley Quotes/Quotations General, US Army, World War 2 Lived: 1893-1981 I can't guarantee that these quotations are correct or true, but I have tried to verify as many of the Bradley quotes as possible. Please contact me if you find any errors in the quotes by Omar N. Bradley, have some additional information about the quotes or if you know any quotations from Omar N. Bradley that's not listed here. Enjoy the Quotes/Quotations from General Omar N. Bradley "In war there is no second prize for the runner-up." -General Omar N. Bradley ,U.S. Army, 1950 "Only one military organization can hold and gain ground in war-a ground army supported by tactical aviation with supply lines guarded by the navy." - General Omar N. Bradley 1951 "Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share in the guilt for the dead." - General Omar N. Bradley "I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes." - General Omar N. Bradley "I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions." - General Omar N. Bradley "If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner." - General Omar N. Bradley "The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living." - General Omar N. Bradley "The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts." - General Omar N. Bradley "A piece of paper makes you an officer, a radio makes you a commander." - General Omar N. Bradley Actually said by one of his commo officers, but mentioned by Bradley in his book "The Soldier's Story" |
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Kisses and hugs to our troops around the world.
May you always be in peace and come home safe! |
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 Love & light & spiritual blessings for our Mighty Troops
Bring them all home safely Oh God of the Universe
Provide for them please & let no need go unmet
 let no weapon formed against them prosper
please put real kindness & peace in all of our hearts
so war will forever end & peace shall eternally prevail
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George W. Bush Quotes George W. Bush Quotations George Walker Bush 43d president of the United States (2001–) Lived: 1946- I can't guarantee that these quotations are correct or true, but I have tried to verify as many of the Bush quotes as possible. Please contact me if you find any errors in the George W. Bush quotes, have some additional information about the quotes or if you know any quotations from George W. Bush that's not listed here. Enjoy the President George W. Bush Quotes/Quotations Quotes related to September 11 and the Attack on Iraq "Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward. Freedom will be defended!" -President George W. Bush, September 11, 2001 "The best defense against terrorism is a strong offensive against terrorists. That work continues." -President George W. Bush, October 13, 2001 "We will not tire, We will not falter, We will not fail." -President George W. Bush, October 26, 2001 "For states that support terror, it is not enough that the consequences be costly-they must be devastating" -George w. Bush at a speech at The Citadel, Dec 11, 2001. "I gave them a fair warning" -President George w. Bush, Oct. 8 when deciding on military action against the Taliban "These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of America's resolve." -President George W. Bush "We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans and confront the worst threats before they emerge." -President George W. Bush to graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in June 2002 "What our enemies have begun, we will finish," - President George W. Bush in his address to the nation on September 11, 2002. "Let's go." Those were the words uttered by President Bush to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, at 7:12 p.m. EST Wednesday 19. march 2003, that authorized the United States to begin war with Iraq "this will not be a campaign of half measures, and we will accept no outcome except victory." - President George Bush, addressing the nation 20.march 2003 |
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Julius Caesar Quotes Julius Caesar Quotations Caius Julius Caesar ca. 100-44 B.C. Roman statesman and general I can't guarantee that these quotations are correct or true, but I have tried to verify as many of the Julius Caesar quotes as possible. Please contact me if you find any errors in the Julius Caesar quotes, have some additional information about the quotes or if you know any quotations from Julius Caesar that's not listed here. Enjoy the Julius Caesar Quotes/Quotations "If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it." - Julius Caesar "It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience." - Julius Caesar "Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish." - Julius Caesar "Veni, vidi, vici." (I came, I saw, I conquered) - Julius Caesar In Plutarch "Life of Caesar", said after the defeat of Pharnaces at Zela in 47 BC This is also said to have been the inscription he had on the sides of his platform which he used in his triumphal parade on his return to Rome. This plaque is likely the source of Plutarchs reasoning that he said it after the battle. "Alea Iacta Est" or "Alea Jacta Est" ("The Die is Cast") Attributed to Julius Caesar when he was crossing the Rubicon in 49 B.C., an action which provoked the start of the first Civil War. This quote is also believed to have been, "Alea iacta esta" - The die will have been cast. IE once we cross this river, no turning back. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Sir Winston Churchill Quotes Churchill Quotations Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill British statesman, soldier, and author Lived: 1874–1965 I can't guarantee that these quotations are correct or true, but I have tried to verify as many of the Churchill quotes as possible. Please contact me if you find any errors in the quotes by Winston Churchill, have some additional information about the quotes or if you know any Winston Churchill quotations that's not listed here. Enjoy the Winston Churchill Quotes/Quotations I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. . . . You ask, what is our policy? I say it is to wage war by land, sea, and air. War with all our might and with all the strength God has given us, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory. Victory at all costs - Victory in spite of all terrors - Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival." - Winston Churchill in his initial speech as Prime Minister to the House of Commons (10 May 1940) "It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations" - Winston Churchill: My Early Life (1930) ch. 9. "Never in the face of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few." - Winston Churchill "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." - Prime Minister Winston Churchill (about the Royal Air Force) (both quotations are correct, but said at different occasions) "In Critical and baffling situations, it is always best to return to first principle and simple action" - Sir Winston S. Churchill “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.” - Sir Winston S. Churchill "I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I inspired the Nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar" - Sir Winston Churchill, Speech Nov. 1954. "There is at least one thing worse than fighting with allies – And that is to fight without them" - Sir Winston S. Churchill "The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it." - Winston Churchill "Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government" - Winston Churchill "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. " - Winston Churchill "Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because it is the quality that guarantees all others" - Sir Winston S. Churchill "A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him." - Sir Winston S. Churchill, 1952. (The Observer) No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account. - Winston Churchill "The Americans will always do the right thing... After they've exhausted all the alternatives." - Winston Churchill "Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar." - Prime Minister Winston Churchill "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." - Sir Winston Churchill Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, 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. -Winston Churchill "We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender and even if, which I do not for the moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the struggle until in God's good time the New World with all its power and might, sets forth to the liberation and rescue of the Old." - Prime Minister Winston Churchill (after the fall of France) "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Prime Minister Winston Churchill "You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory. Victory at all costs. Victory in spite of all terrors. Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival." - Prime Minister Winston Churchill "To have the United States at our side was to me the greatest joy. Now at this very moment I knew the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all!...Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to powder." - Prime Minister Winston Churchill (after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor) "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." Churchill's remark after Chamberlain returned from signing the Munich pact with Hitler and "Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonor. They chose dishonor." - Prime Minister Winston Churchill "Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us." - Winston Churchill "We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France. We shall fight on the seas and oceans. We shall fight with growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields and in the streets. We shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender." - Winston Churchill "Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter." - Winston Churchill Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. - Winston Churchill It's no use saying, ''We are doing our best.'' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. - Winston Churchill My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. - Winston Churchill I never worry about action, but only inaction. - Winston Churchill We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage. - Winston Churchill No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity. - Winston Churchill I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. - Winston Churchill I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. - Winston Churchill Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal. - Winston Churchill We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often. - Winston Churchill Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. - Winston Churchill Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon. - Winston Churchill To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. - Winston Churchill Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent. - Winston Churchill It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive. - Winston Churchill I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. - Winston Churchill Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality. - Winston Churchill Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice. - Winston Churchill There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right. - Winston Churchill Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure. - Winston Churchill Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result. - Winston Churchill I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Winston Churchill No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it. - Winston Churchill I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar. - Winston Churchill "There is nothing so pleasing as to be shot at by one’s enemy without result." - Winston Churchill "Give us the tools, and we will finish the job" - Churchill, in a broadcast addressed to Roosevelt in 1941 "It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them." - Churchill to General George Marshall 1945 "We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general." - Churchill about Rommel You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves. -Winston Churchill In War: Resolution In Defeat: Defiance In Victory: Magnanimity In Peace: Good Will -Winston Churchill quotes If, however, there is to be a war of nerves let us make sure our nerves are strong and are fortified by the deepest convictions of our hearts. -Winston Churchill quotes Little did we guess that what has been called the century of the common man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries together in the history of the world. -Winston Churchill quotes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Confucius Quotes Confucius Quotations K'ung Ch'iu or K'ung Fu-tzu (Master K'ung) Chinese Sage, Philosopher and Reformer Lived: ca. 551–479 BC (click here to find out more about Confucius, from Infoplease.com) I can't guarantee that these quotations are correct or true, but I have tried to verify as many of the Confucius quotes as possible. Please contact me if you find any errors in the quotes by Confucius, have some additional information about the quotes or if you know any quotations from Confucius that's not listed here. Enjoy the Confucius Quotes/Quotations "To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away." - Confucius "To see the right and not to do it is cowardice." - Confucius "A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions"
- Confucius "An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger." - Confucius "The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him."
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Oliver Cromwell Quotes/Quotations Lord Protector of England 1599-1658 here to find out more about Oliver Cromwell I can't guarantee that these quotations are correct or true, but I have tried to verify as many of the quotes from Oliver Cromwell as possible. Please contact me if you find any errors in the Oliver Cromwell quotes, have some additional information about the quotes or if you know any quotations from Oliver Cromwell that's not listed here. Enjoy the Oliver Cromwell Quotes "A man-of-war is the best ambassador." -Oliver Cromwell "Put your trust in God, but keep your powder dry." -Oliver Cromwell "On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens." - Oliver Cromwell's Soldiers ("Humble Representation") "I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that you call a Gentleman and is nothing else."
- Oliver Cromwell In a Letter from Oliver Cromwell to Sir William Spring. Sept. 1643. "Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking"
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General Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes Dwight David Eisenhower Quotations American general and 34th President of the United States Lived 1890–1969 (click here to learn more about Eisenhower) I can't guarantee that these quotations are correct or true, but I have tried to verify as many of the Eisenhower quotes as possible. Please contact me if you find any errors in the Eisenhower quotes, have some additional information about the quotes or if you know any Eisenhower quotations that's not listed here. Enjoy the Eisenhower Quotes/Quotations "When you put on a uniform there are certain inhibitions that you accept." - General Dwight D. Eisenhower "What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog" - General Dwight D. Eisenhower, January 1958. Republican National Convention "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." - General Dwight D. Eisenhower "From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard." - General Dwight D. Eisenhower "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid." - General Dwight D. Eisenhower "I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity." - General Dwight D. Eisenhower "I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts." - General Dwight D. Eisenhower "If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution." - General Dwight D. Eisenhower "If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order." - General Dwight D. Eisenhower "Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." - General Dwight D. Eisenhower "Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene." - General Dwight D. Eisenhower "The sergeant is the Army." - General Dwight D. Eisenhower "There is no victory at bargain basement prices." - General Dwight D. Eisenhower "You don't lead by hitting people over the head-that's assault, not leadership." - General Dwight D. Eisenhower "In this war, which was total in every sense of the word, we have seen many great changes in military science. It seems to me that not the least of these was the development of psychological warfare as a specific and effective weapon." - General Dwight D. Eisenhower "The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you." - General Dwight D Eisenhower, address to his troops D-Day 1944 "Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal." - General Dwight D. Eisenhower I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. - General Dwight D. Eisenhower Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. - General Dwight D. Eisenhower -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Frederick the Great Quotes Frederick the Great Quotations Frederick II of Prussia King of Prussia (1740–86) Lived: 1712–86 I can't guarantee that these quotations are correct or true, but I have tried to verify as many of the quotes from Frederick the Great as possible. Please contact me if you find any errors in the Frederick the Great quotes, have some additional information about the quotes or if you know any quotations from Frederick the Great that's not listed here. Enjoy the Frederick II Quotes "By push of bayonets, no firing until you see the whites in their eyes!" - Frederick the Great, at Prague, 1757 "Without supplies no army is brave" - Frederick the great, "Instructions to his Generals" 1747 "Rascals, do you want to live forever?" (Ihr Racker, wollt ihr ewig leben?) - Frederick the Great, 1757. When the guards hesitated at the battle of Kolin. "A defensive war is apt to betray us into too frequent detachment. Those generals who have had but little experience attempt to protect every point, while those who are better acquainted with their profession, having only the capital object in view, guard against a decisive blow, and acquiesce in small misfortunes to avoid greater." - Frederick the Great "The most certain way of insuring victory is to march briskly and in good order against the enemy, always endeavoring to gain ground." -Frederick the Great "It is your attitude, and the suspicion that you are maturing the boldest designs against him, that imposes on your enemy." - Frederick the Great "I am up and about when I am ill, and in the most appalling weather. I am on horseback when other men would be flat out on their beds, complaining. We are made for action, and activity is the sovereign remedy for all physical ills." - Frederick the Great "Everything which the enemy least expects will succeed the best." - Frederick the Great ("Instructions to his Generals") |
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Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses Simpson Grant Originally named: Hiram Ulysses Grant Commander in chief of the Union army in the Civil War and 18th President (1869–77) of the United States. Lived: 1822–1885 I can't guarantee that these quotations are correct or true, but I have tried to verify as many of the quotes from Ulysses S. Grant as possible. Please contact me if you find any errors in the Ulysses S. Grant quotes, have some additional information about the quotes or if you know any quotations from Ulysses S. Grant that's not listed here. Ulysses S. Grant Quotes/Quotations "I have never advocated war except as a means of peace." - General Ulysses S. Grant "If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail." - General Ulysses S. Grant "The right of revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by their government, it is a natural right they enjoy to relieve themselves of oppression, if they are strong enough, whether by withdrawal from it, or by overthrowing it and substituting a government more acceptable." - General Ulysses S. Grant "There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword." - General Ulysses S. Grant "Wherever the enemy goes, let our troops go also" - General Ulysses S. Grant, August 1864. "I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did" - General Ulysses S. Grant, about paperwork and administration "...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever he meets him." - General Ulysses S. Grant, letter to Washburne, June 19, 1862 |
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Ernest Hemingway Quotes Ernest Miller Hemingway Quotations American novelist and short-story writer Also a veteran from WW1 and WW2 Lived: 1899–1961 Click here to find out more about Ernest Hemingway I can't guarantee that these quotations are correct or true, but I have tried to verify as many of the quotes from Ernest Hemingway as possible. Please contact me if you find any errors in the Ernest Hemingway quotes, have some additional information about the Hemingway quotes or if you know any quotations from Ernest Hemingway that's not listed here. Ernest Hemingway Quotes/Quotations "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. "
- Ernest Hemingway "For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive." - Ernest Hemingway "Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object." - Ernest Hemingway "I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes." - Ernest Hemingway "Wars are caused by undefended wealth." - Ernest Hemingway "The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale." - Ernest Hemingway "Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime." - Ernest Hemingway "In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason." - Ernest Hemingway |
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Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson Thomas Jonathan Jackson Confederate General Lived: 1824–1863 I can't guarantee that these Stonewall Jackson quotations are correct or true, but I have tried to verify as many of the quotes from Stonewall Jackson as possible. Please contact me if you find any errors in the Stonewall Jackson quotes, have some additional information about the quotes or if you know any quotations from Thomas Stonewall Jackson that's not listed here. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson Quotes/Quotations "The hardships of forced marches are often more painful than the dangers of battle" - General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson "Then, Sir, we will give them the bayonet!" - Stonewall Jakcson's reply to Colonel B.E Bee when he reported that the enemy were beating them back. At the first battle of Bull Run, July 1861. "Under divine blessing, we must rely on the bayonet when firearms cannot be furnished" - Stonewall Jackson, letter accompanying his requisition for 1000 pikes. April 1861 "Don't say it's impossible! Turn your command over to the next officer. If he can't do it, I'll find someone who can, even if I have to take him from the ranks!" - General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson "When war does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." - General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson "I yield to no man in sympathy for the gallant men under my command; but I am obliged to sweat them tonight, so that I may save their blood tomorrow." - General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson "Once you get them running, you stay right on top of them, and that way a small force can defeat a large one every time... Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger; it must make up in activity what it lacks in strength." - General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson "Who could not conquer with such troops as these?" - General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson "My troops may fail to take a position, but are never driven from one!" - General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson |
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For our Mighty & Noble Troops wherever they are & wherever they go
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes 3d President of the United States (1801–09) Author of the Declaration of Independence Lived: 1743–1826 (click here to find out more about Ernest Hemingway, from Infoplease.com) I can't guarantee that these Thomas Jefferson quotations are correct or true, but I have tried to verify as many of the quotes from Thomas Jefferson as possible. Please contact me if you find any errors in the Thomas Jefferson quotes, have some additional information about the Jefferson quotes or if you know any quotations from Thomas Jefferson that's not listed here. Thomas Jefferson Quotes/Quotations "For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security." - Thomas Jefferson: message to Congress, Nov. 1808 "From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots." - Thomas Jefferson "War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses." - Thomas Jefferson "Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism." - Thomas Jefferson "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." - Thomas Jefferson "In matters of style swim with the current in matters of principle stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson |
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