"We make war that we may live in peace."
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"Have the courage to act instead of react."
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"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death."
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"Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
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"Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers."
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"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."
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"We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees."
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"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die."
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"Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous."
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"Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not. So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things. What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance. And all music is."
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"There never was a good war or a bad revolution."
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"History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap."
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"The 2.4 million bright, brave, incredibly fit and remarkably talented young Americans who have served in our armed forces since we were attacked on 9-11-01 are all volunteers. As General Petraeus put it during a conversation we had in Afghanistan, 'They all came or stayed, knowing they were going to war.' For more than a decade, these patriots and their loved ones have made extraordinary sacrifices for this country. They embody the classical definition of heroes: those who put themselves at risk for the benefit of others."
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"Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes."
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"All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service."
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"Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them."
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"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes."
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"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it until the test comes."
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"Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice."
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"It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech."
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