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"Freedom isn't free.
Anonymous
"If it moves, salute it; if it doesn't move, pick it up; and if you can't pick it up, paint it."
anonymous (1940's saying)
"Soldiers are men...most apt for all manner of services and best able to support and endure the infinite toils and continual hazards of war."
Henry Knyvett
"A soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of the general.
Adapted from Henry G. Bohn"
"Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats."
Josephus Daniels
"Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a difference in the world, but the Marines don't have that problem."
Ronald Reagan
"A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living."
John F. Kennedy
"A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons."
Admiral David D. Porter, USN
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
George Patton
"Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it."
Will Rogers
"Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line."
Charles Edward Montague
"Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war."
Ernest Miller Hemmingway
