[Wake27]

"Ours 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." - Omar Bradley

"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." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"There was never a good war, or a bad peace." - Benjamin Franklin

"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth." - Adolf Hitler

"War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today." - John F. Kennedy

"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind." - John F. Kennedy

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his." - George S. Patton

"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato

"Sweat saves blood." - Erwin Rommel

"War does not determine who is right - only who is left." - Bertrand Russel

"The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic." - Joseph Stalin

"All war is deception." - Sun Tzu

"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars." - William Westmoreland

"It is well that war is so terrible else we should grow too fond of it." - Robert E. Lee

"If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking." - George S. Patton

"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." - George S. Patton

"Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself." - George S. Patton

"Now I want you to remember that 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." - George S. Patton

"Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory." - George S. Patton

"One of the bulldozers uncovered the decomposing body of an enemy soldier, complete with AK47. I happened to be standing right there, looking down into the hole and pulled the AK out of the bog. 'Watch this, guys,' I said, 'and I'll show you how a real infantry weapon works.' I pulled the bolt back and fired 30 rounds - the AK could have been cleaned that day rather than buried in glug for a year or so. That was the kind of weapon our soldiers needed, not the confidence-sapping M16." - David Hackworth, US Army battallion commander, Vietnam War

"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem." - Ronald Reagan

"I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world. [Speaking of the USMC]" - Winston Churchill

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"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real." - Tupac Shakur

"I don't bang for the color or the land. I bang for the principles and for the honor. I'm bangin' for the Westside - this is in my heart, this is how I feel." - Tupac Shakur

"I don't advocate senseless violence of any human being. I'm the one who's been beat down. But I will not be a victim again." - Tupac Shakur

"I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated." - Tupac Shakur

"We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins." - Tupac Shakur

"My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'" - Tupac Shakur

"Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway." - John Wayne

"Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today." - Malcom X

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." - Walt Disney

"A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes." - Ghandi

"Be the change that you want to see in the world." - Ghandi

"Are you guys ready? Let's roll." - Todd Beamer, passenger on United Airlines Flight 93, last reported words from his cell phone call to Lisa D. Jefferson, a GTC telephone switchboard operator