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degraded st. of moral & patriotic feeling which things nothing is worth a war is worse. A man who has nothing he cares about more than his personal safety is a miserable creature & has no chance of being free unless made & kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
    Anonymous

    I want to say something about Army. When all the slick pants politicians have finished their work, and all the speeches are finished in the Senate & the House, and all the ultimatums have been issued and rejected, there comes a time when a soldier with a gun stands to defend his country. And so in the final analysis the most important thing we have are the fighting men in this country, because it will be them & no one else who will see that our freedoms are perpetuated for our children & for their children.

    O f all the men who have died in battle to preserve what we have today 88% wore the uniform of the U.S. Army.
    Dean of Canterbury, Talking About Civil War, 1863 (Rev. Henry Alford)

    D enounced the U.S. for: “Its reckless and fruitless maintenance of the most cruel and unprincipled war in the history of the world.” (The war that ended slavery)
    Thomas Jefferson

    I f we are forced into a war, we must give up differences of opinion and united as one nation to defend our country.
    George Washington

    D inner dialogue at Mt. Vernon between Lafayette and GW:

L: “George you Americans even in war & desperate times have a superb spirit. You are happy & you are confident. Why is it?

GW: “There is freedom, there is space for a man to be alone & think & there are friends who owe each other nothing but affection.”
    Sun Tzu 2500 Years Ago

    A n army is only the instrument which administers the coup de grace to an enemy already defeated by intel. ops which separated the enemy from his allies, corrupted his officials, spread misleading info. & correctly assessed his strengths & weaknesses—winning 100 battles is not the acme of skill—to subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
    Winston Churchill

    S till if you will not fight for the right when you can win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure & not too costly; you may come to the moment when you’ll have to fight with all the odds against you & only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
    J.F.K.

    T here can be only one possible defense policy for the U.S. It can be expressed in one word—the word is 1st. I do not mean 1st when—I don’t mean 1st if—I mean 1st, period.
    Dwight Eisenhower

    T he vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk its own destruction.
    Demosthenes, 1000 Years Ago—Athenian Mkt. Place

    W hat sane man would let another man’s words rather than his deeds tell him who is at war & who is at peace with him.
    General G. Macarthur, West Point ’62

    I do not know the dignity of their birth but I do know the glory of their death. They died unquestioning, uncomplaining, with faith in their hearts, and on their lips the hope that we would go on to victory.
    Prayer Of Aristophanes Among Ruins of Greek Temple Destroyed in the Peloponnesian War

    F rom the murmur & subtlety of suspicion with which we vex one, another give us rest. Make a new beginning mingle again among the kindred of the nations with the alchemy of love; and with some finer essence of forbearance, temper our minds.
    Vladimir Lenin

    G reat historical questions can be solved only by violence, & organization of violence in the modern struggle is a military organization.

    I t would be madness to renounce coercion.
    Nikita Khrushchev

    W e must realize that we cannot exist eternally, for a long time . . . one of us must go to his grave. The Ams. & the west do not want to go to their grave