War Archives - Quote of the day

Courage

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.

0202

Art

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

0232

Country

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

0238

Determination

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

0362

Government

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

0162

Government

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

0211

George S. Patton

I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.

0208

Country

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

0252

Jimmy Carter

We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.

0163

Chesty Puller

They’re on our right, they’re on our left, they’re in front of us, they’re behind us; they can’t get away from us this time.

0164

Douglas MacArthur

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

0169

Barack Obama

In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

0209