"The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those dear to them bathed in tears, to ride their horses and clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters."
-Genghis Khan

"Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removers all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sence of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood."
-General George Patton

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"Every citizen [should] be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and the Romans, and must be that of every free state."
-Thomas Jefferson

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"It is better to have less thunder in the mouth, and more lightning in the hand."
-General Ben Chidlaw

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"Got an IFSAS head, it's bigger than a FED, we make things dead, IFSAS head!"
-SSG Brandy Nichols sings 'The Funky IFSAS Blues'

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"Poor performers are easy to spot. They always have excuses or other commitments whtn the going gets tough and conditions are hard. But they will take credit for what others have done and boast of their own accomplishments."
-William O. Wooldridge The First Sergeant Major of the Army (RET)

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"Always, always lead by example. Those whom you lead will be quick to grasp the true identity of a truly professional NCO and will be more willing to follow, obey and persevere."
-Silas L. Copeland Sergeant Major of the Army (RET)

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"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die."
-G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936), British Author

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"There is no question what the roll of honor in America is. The roll of honor consists of the names of men who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty."
-Woodrow Wilson

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"What is the way of the Warrior? The way of the Warrior is Death."
-Seventeenth Century Japanese proverb

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"But we are not all warriors. That is our human failing."
-Richard Marcinko

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"The essence of leadership is vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet."
-Father Theodore Hesburgh

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"It is a doctrine of war not to assume the enemy will not come, but rather to rely on one's readiness to meet him; not to presume that he will not attack, but rather to make one's self invincible."
-Sun Tzu - The Art of War

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"Knowing how to handle pressure is necessary for survival."
-Admiral James Stockdale

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"Those who strive for mediocrity are doomed to achieve it."
-SSG Jim Fenton, 1996

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"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them, the rest of us could not succeed."
-Mark Twain - 'Following the Equator'Pudd'nhead WIlson's New Calendar

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"Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start to think of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure."
-Tommy Lasorda, MGR, L.A. Dodgers

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"The American people rightly look to their military leaders not only to be skilled in the technical aspects of the profession of arms, but to be men of ingegrity."
-General Joseph Lawton Collins

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"Don't fear the Reaper."
-Buck Dharma, B.O.C.

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"Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions higherto unexplored."
-Abraham Lincoln

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"A prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding. If his own prowess fails to compare with theirs, at least it has an air of greatness about it."
-Niccolo Machiavelli

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"And nothing to look backward to with pride,
And nothing to look forward to with hope."
-Robert Frost - Death of the Hired Man

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"During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk."
-Soren Kierkegaard

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"I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether."
-Socrates

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"Ultima ratio regum - (The final argument of Kings)"
-...Inscription from French Cannons, by order of Louis XIV

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"Artillery is the god of war."
-Joseph Stalin

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"CANNON,n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries."
-Ambrose Bierce

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"The speed, accuracy and devastating power of American Artillery won confidence and admiration from the troops it supported and inspired fear and respect in their enemy."
-General Dwight D. Eisenhower

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"If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change."
-Guiseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa - Sicilian author

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"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."
-General Colin Powell

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"The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time."
-Leo Kennedy

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"The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more."
-Jonas Salk, M.D.

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"Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs."
-P.J. O'Rourke

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"The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you are travelling for."
-Louis L'Amore

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"One does not become a guru by accident."
-James FentonBritish Author

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"NUTS!"
-Major General Anthony McAuliffe - in reply to aGerman demand that he surrender his beleaguered force at Bastogne, 23 December 1944

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"The future is no place to place your better days."
-Dave Matthews - 'Cry Freedom', The Dave Matthews Band from 'Crash' 1996

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"Spread the Love!"
-SSG Jim Fenton, A.T. 1997

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"Be Bold, Bloody and Resolute."
-Shakespeare - Macbeth, iv, 1, 1605

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"Time is everything: five minutes makes the difference between victory and defeat."
-Admiral Horatio Nelson

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"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."
-Helen Keller

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"You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere, if only out of curiosity."
-General Colin Powell

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"For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind."
-Hosea, 8.7

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"If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light - not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work."
-Beryl Markham - 'West With The Night'

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"It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you."
-Dick Cheney

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"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us happy."
-Benjamin Franklin

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"It’s not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..."
-From the creed of Hotel Company Rangers, 75th Infantry, 1st Air Cav Division, Phouc Vinh, Vietnam

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"The more you know, the less you need."
-Australian Aboriginal Saying

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HOOAH! (WHO-A) Adj.; Slang used by soldiers, primarily AIRBORNE, RANGER, PEACEKEEPER TYPES and FISTERS, as well as most other incarnations of the 11 Series MOS, referring to or meaning any thing and everything except (“No”) 1. What to say when at a loss for words. 2. Good Copy, Roger, Good, Great, Message Received, Understood. 3. Glad to meet you, welcome. 4. I don’t know the answer, but I’ll check on it, I haven’t the vaguest idea. 5. I am not listening. 6. That’s enough of your dribble, sit down. 7. STOP SNIVELING! 8. OH SHIT! You’ve got to be kidding. 9. YES. 10. Thank You. 11. Go to the next slide. 12. You’ve taken the correct action. 13. I don’t know what that means, but I am too embarrassed to ask for clarification. 14. Amen.
-Unknown

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"If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think."
-Clarence Darrow

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"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own."
-Benjamin Disraeli

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"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."
-Maureen Dowd in New York Times

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"We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are."
-Tobias Wolff 'In Pharaoh's Army'

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"Achievement is largely a product f steadily raising ones levels of aspiration and expectation."
-Jack Nicklaus

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OVERHEARD-" I remember when digital communication was what you got for cutting someone off in traffic."
-S. Kelly in Sandiego Union Tribune

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