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"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."
"Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed."
"Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it."
"A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us."
"A nation that will keep people in slavery for 244 years will "thingify" them and make them things. And therefore, they will exploit them and poor people generally economically. And a nation that will exploit economically will have to have foreign investments and everything else, and it will have to use its military might to protect them. All of these problems are tied together. What I'm saying today is that we must go from this convention and say, "America, you must be born again!""
"My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service."
"I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General."
"The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable."
"A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective."
"Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth."
"An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy."
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty."
"War: that mad game the world so loves to play."
"Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency."
"...The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism."
"It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom."
"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows."
"JAG is an acronym for the Judge Advocate General, which is the judicial system of the military."
"When I came out of the military, I had a club in Memphis and I started using the The Bar Kays as my club band. They were still only in the middle school - but I'd take them on the road with me on the weekends, sometimes."
"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."
