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− | <br>Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace." | + | <br>"Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace." |
Amelia Earhart, 1938 | Amelia Earhart, 1938 | ||
"To ensure victory, the troops must have confidence in themselves as well as in their commanders." | "To ensure victory, the troops must have confidence in themselves as well as in their commanders." | ||
− | --Niccolo Machiavelli | + | -- Niccolo Machiavelli. ''Discorsi'', xxxiii, 1531 |
− | "Being ready is not what matters. What matters is winning after you get there.--LTGEN V.H. Krulak, USMC: | + | "Being ready is not what matters. What matters is winning after you get there.-- LTGEN V.H. Krulak, USMC: |
To a Marine unit leaving for Vietnam, April 1965 | To a Marine unit leaving for Vietnam, April 1965 | ||
− | "Peace is the daughter of war." --French Proverb | + | "Peace is the daughter of war." -- French Proverb |
− | "Peace is produced by war." --Latin Proverb | + | "Peace is produced by war." -- Latin Proverb |
− | God made Warrant Officers to give the junior enlisted Marine someone to worship, the senior enlisted Marine someone to envy, the junior officer someone to tolerate, and the senior officer someone to respect. | + | "God made Warrant Officers to give the junior enlisted Marine someone to worship, the senior enlisted Marine someone to envy, the junior officer someone to tolerate, and the senior officer someone to respect." |
− | --Fiction and Fact | + | -- Fiction and Fact from Dunk's Almanac |
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Revision as of 14:32, 10 June 2008
"Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace."
Amelia Earhart, 1938
"To ensure victory, the troops must have confidence in themselves as well as in their commanders." -- Niccolo Machiavelli. Discorsi, xxxiii, 1531
"Being ready is not what matters. What matters is winning after you get there.-- LTGEN V.H. Krulak, USMC: To a Marine unit leaving for Vietnam, April 1965
"Peace is the daughter of war." -- French Proverb
"Peace is produced by war." -- Latin Proverb
"God made Warrant Officers to give the junior enlisted Marine someone to worship, the senior enlisted Marine someone to envy, the junior officer someone to tolerate, and the senior officer someone to respect." -- Fiction and Fact from Dunk's Almanac