"It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them."
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"For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank."
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"The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty."
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"The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort."
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"We should never lose sight of the ethos that has made the Marine Corps - where 'every Marine is a rifleman' - one of America's cherished institutions and one of the world's most feared and respected fighting forces"
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"Use humility to make the enemy haughty. Tire them by flight. Cause division among them. When they are unprepared, attack and make your move when they do not expect it."
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"In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them."
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"Therefore I say: know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril."
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"Bring war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy... use the conquered foe to augment one's own strength."
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"He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign."
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"There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen."
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"The strongest army in the world [the French] facing no more than twenty-six [German] divisions, sitting still and sheltering behind steel and concrete while a quixotically valiant ally was being exterminated!"
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"Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other."
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"Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats."
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"Military men are the scourges of the world."
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"They [China] have indicated that they’re trying to develop nuclear capability and they want to develop more aircraft carriers like we have. So yes, we have to consider them a military threat."
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"I'm not an expert on the Middle East or terrorism or the use of military force or politics. It's all I can do to know a little bit about how to help people raise their kids and what to do when they get sick. When a war happens, I just hope it gets over with quickly so that how we take care of children becomes more important again."
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"I have in mind repeated statements by Japanese military men containing threats against other states."
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"I have always considered Saipan the decisive battle of the Pacific offensive...(it was) the naval and military heart and brain of the Japanese defence strategy."
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"Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military."
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