"The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it."
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"Don't forget, incoming fire has the right of way."
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"When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue."
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"I consider it an indispensible duty to close this last solemn act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God and those who have the superintendence of them into his Holy keeping."
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"Plans are nothing; planning is everything."
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"I have made no secret, either privately or publicly, of any sense of outrage over officially enforced military and war service. I regard it as a duty of conscience to fight against such barbarous enslavement of the individual with every means available."
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"The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious."
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"Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories."
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"The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation."
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"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military."
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"The main thing is to make history, not to write it."
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"Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness."
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"Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy."
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"I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat."
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"Nothing is more destructive than the charge of artillery on a crowd."
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"The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service."
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"If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us."
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"When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept."
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"The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And if the one side won an ideological and political victory, the other made Apocalypse Now and that has gone right around the world."
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"No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity."
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