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Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Abraham Lincoln Quotations
16th President of the United States (1861-65)
Lived: 1809-1865

Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Abraham Lincoln Quotations
16th President of the United States (1861-65)
Lived: 1809-1865



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"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with
anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right, and part with
him when he goes wrong."
- Abraham Lincoln

"Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all
future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no
successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such
appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs."
- Abraham Lincoln

"With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right,
as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the world we
are in, to bind up the nation's wounds."
- Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address, 1865.

"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks
the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act
as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed
upon a definition of liberty."
- Abraham Lincoln

"We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth."
- Abraham Lincoln

"The man who can't make a mistake can't make anything."
- Abraham Lincoln

"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail.
Without it nothing can succeed. He who molds opinion is greater than he who
enacts laws."
- President Abraham Lincoln

Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all
future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no
successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such
appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs.
- Abraham Lincoln

"To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men"
- Attributed to Abraham Lincoln

I just want our kids home safely.

i know, Buddy...


I feel the same way, for sure ///

Uhhhh...Honey....you have me confused with my ugly older brother...(His actual name is Buddy)...I have to break out this line constantly.

But, I hear ya doll.....

how coincidental & how funny



that's okay...though,



you're my Buddy & a real Gentleman, too

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General Douglas MacArthur Quotes
Douglas MacArthur Quotations
American general
Supreme Allied Commander of South-West Pacific (1945)
Lived: 1880–1964


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"It is my earnest hope - indeed the hope of all mankind - that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past, a world found upon faith and understanding, a world dedicated to the dignity of man and the fulfillment of his most cherished wish for freedom, tolerance and justice."
- General Douglas Macarthur

"In war there is no substitute for victory."
- Gen Douglas MacArthur

"I Shall Return"
- Gen Douglas MacArthur

"The President of the United States ordered me to break through the Japanese lines and proceed from Corregidor to Australia for the purpose, as I understand it, of organizing the American offensive against Japan, a primary objective of which is the relief of the Philippines. I came through and I shall return."


"Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed"
- Macarthur, August 1950 to the Joint Chiefs of Staff

There is no security in this life. There is only opportunity.
- Gen Douglas MacArthur

"In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is an eyelash."
- General Douglas MacArthur

In war there is no substitute for victory.
- General Douglas MacArthur

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
- General Douglas MacArthur

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.
- General Douglas MacArthur

"I have just returned from visiting the MARINES at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!"
- General Douglas MacArthur

By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder -- infinitely prouder -- to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, ''Our Father Who Art in Heaven.''
- General Douglas MacArthur

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation
- General Douglas MacArthur

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
- General Douglas MacArthur

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
- General Douglas MacArthur

You are remembered for the rules you break.
- General Douglas MacArthur

There's no security on this earth, only opportunity.
- General Douglas MacArthur

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
- General Douglas MacArthur

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
- General Douglas MacArthur

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
- General Douglas MacArthur

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
- General Douglas MacArthur

"One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda."
-General Douglas MacArthur

"In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military."
-General Douglas MacArthur

On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seed that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
-General Douglas MacArthur

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
-Douglas MacArthur


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Niccolo Machiavelli

Niccolo Machiavelli Quotations
Italian political philosopher, statesman.
Lived: 1469-1527



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Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes



"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of
others."
- Niccolò Machiavelli

"The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at
the men he has around him."
- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

"I hold it to be of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and
insulting words towards any one, for neither the one nor the other in any
way diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more
cautious, and the other increases his hatred of you, and makes him more
persevering in his efforts to injure you"
- Niccolo Machiavelli

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a
breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as
ability to execute, military plans.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

"Never do an enemy a small injury"
- Niccolo Machiavelli

"War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no
hope except in arms."
- Niccolo Machiavelli

"Few men are brave by nature, but good order and experience make many so.
Good order and discipline in many army are to be depended upon than courage
alone."
- Niccolo Machiavelli

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Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini Quotes/Quotations
Italian dictator, and leader of the fascist Movement
Lived: 1883-1945

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Benito Mussolini Quotes
"For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to fifty thousand votes"
- Benito Mussolini

"Blood alone moves the wheels of history."
- Benito Mussolini

"War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and
doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace."
- Benito Mussolini

"War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes
the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it."
- Benito Mussolini

Another version of the quote:

"War alone brings all human energies to their highest tension,
and sets a seal of nobility on the people who have the virtue to face it"
- Benito Mussolini



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Napoleon quotes, Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
Napoleon Quotations
Emperor of the French
Lived: 1769–1821




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"Soldiers! Forty centuries behold you!"
- Napoleon Bonaparte, July 1798.
To his army before the Battle of the Pyramids.

"The moral is to the physical as three to one"
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"My business is to succeed, and I’m good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day."
- Napoleon (1804),
in a conversation with Pope Pius VII at Fontainebleau.

"the secret of war lies in the communications"
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon to Berthier 11 Nov 1798, Corres., V, no. 3606 p. 128 quoted in - Napoleon on the Art of War

"A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon"
15 July 1815. To the captain of HMS Bellerophon.
HMS Bellerophon carried Napoleon from the Ile d'Aix to Plymouth
before he was transferred to the HMS Northumberland and taken into exile on St Helena.

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"It is better to have a known enemy than a forced ally"
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction.
You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him"
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality,
and the real foundations of all its habits"
- Napoleon, "Political Aphorisms" 1848

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.”
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

" The most dangerous moment comes with victory"
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"The bayonet has always been the weapon of the brave and the chief tool of victory"
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Cavalry is useful before, during, and after the battle"
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Without cavalry, battles are without result"
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Courage is like love: it must have hope for nourishment."
- Napoleon Bonaparte ("Maxims")

"Human life is the only thing that takes care of itself."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (on why he left men exposed to the enemy in Russia)

"In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!"
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"The most important qualification of a soldier is fortitude under fatigue and privation. Courage is only second; hardship, poverty and want are the best school for a soldier."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Strategy is the art of making use of time and space.
I am less concerned about the latter than the former.
Space we can recover, lost time never."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"One bad general is worth two good ones."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Made a career of finding, and defeating, inept enemy generals.

"How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. ... This is the only way to become a great general and master the secrets of the art of war. ..."
-Napoleon Bonaparte, "Military Maxims of Napoleon

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General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller
Chesty Puller Quotes/Quotations
Lewis Burwell Puller


One of the greatest US Marines Legends and highest decorated Marine in History

Lived: 1898-1971



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Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller Quotes
"Paper-work will ruin any military force"
- Lieutenant-General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller

"You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em."
- Lieutenant-General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller

When an Army captain asked him for the direction of the line of retreat,
Col Puller called his Tank Commander,
gave them the Army position, and ordered:
"If they start to pull back from that line,
even one foot, I want you to open fire on them."
Turning to the captain, he replied "Does that answer your question?
We're here to fight."

At Koto-ri in Korea
- Chesty Puller at Koto-ri in Korea
(From "Marine: The Life of Chesty Puller"
by Burke Davis)

"The mail service has been excellent out here, and in my opinion this is all that the
Air Force has accomplished during the war."

- Chesty Puller in a letter to his wife while in Korea

"Don't forget that you're First Marines!
Not all the Communists in hell can overrun you!"

- Chesty Puller motivating his men at Chosin Reservoir

"Our Country won't go on forever,
if we stay soft as we are now.
There won't
be any AMERICA because some foreign soldier
will invade us and take our
women and breed a hardier race!"

-Lt. Gen. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC

"Take me to the Brig.
I want to see the "real Marines". "

Major General Chesty Puller, USMC -
while on a Battalion inspection.

"We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem."

- Attributed to Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC

(I have found three versions of this one)
The quotes may not be Chesty Pullers,

but may instead have been said by General O.P.Smith

"All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of
us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time"

- Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC

"They are in front of us, behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an
enemy that outnumbers us 29:1. They can't get away from us now!"

- Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC

When the Marines were cut off behind enemy lines and the Army had written
the 1st Marine Division off as being lost because they were surrounded by 22
enemy divisions. The Marines made it out inflicting the highest casualty
ratio on an enemy in history and destroying 7 entire enemy divisions in the
process. An enemy division is 16500+ men while a Marine division is 12500 men.

"They are a damn site better than the U.S. Army, at least we know that they
will be there in the morning."

- Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller

< when a journalist asked him about being surrounded by 22. enemy divisions >

"there are not enough chinamen in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment
from going where ever they wont to go"

- Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller



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General George S. Patton Quotes
George S. Patton Quotations

George Smith Patton
American General
Lived: 1885–1945



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"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.

He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."


- Attributed to General George Patton Jr
(from "A Genius for War" by Carlo d'Este)

"An army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team.
This individuality stuff is a bunch of bull****."

- General George Patton Jr

"Prisoner of War guard companies,
or an equivalent organization,
should be as far forward as possible in action
to take over prisoners of war,
because troops heated with battle
are not safe custodians.
Any attempt to rob or loot prisoners of war
by escorts must be dealt strictly with."

- General George S. Patton.
("War as I knew it" 1947)

“It is absurd to believe that soldiers
who cannot be made to wear the proper uniform
can be induced to move forward in battle.

Officers who fail to perform their duty
by correcting small violations
and in enforcing proper conduct
are incapable of leading.”

- General George S. Patton Jr., April 1943

“You cannot be disciplined in great things
and indiscipline in small things.

Brave undisciplined men have no chance
against the discipline and valour of other men.

Have you ever seen a few policemen
handle a crowd?”
- General George S. Patton Jr, May 1941,

in an address to officers
and men of the Second Armored Division.

"War is an art and as such
is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula"
- General George Patton Jr

"If a man does his best,
what else is there?"

- General George Patton Jr

"If everyone is thinking alike,
someone isn't thinking."
- General George Patton Jr

"Infantry must move forward
to close with the enemy.
It must shoot in order to move….
To halt under fire is folly.
To halt under fire
and not fire back is suicide.
Officers must set the example"

- General George Patton Jr
"War as I knew it" 1947

"Few men are killed by the bayonet,
many are scared by it.
Bayonets should be fixed
when the fire fight starts"
- General George Patton Jr,
"War as I knew it" 1947

"All men are timid on entering any fight.
Whether it is the first or the last fight,
all of us are timid.

Cowards are those who let their timidity
get the better of their manhood."

- General George Patton Jr,
"War as I knew it" 1947

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

- General George Patton Jr


Success is how high you bounce
when you hit bottom.
- General George Patton Jr


Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
- General George Patton Jr


Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
- General George Patton Jr

Pressure makes diamonds.
- General George Patton Jr

May God have mercy upon my enemies,
because I won't.
- General George Patton Jr

If you can't get them to salute
when they should salute and wear the clothes
you tell them to wear,

how are you going to get them
to die for their country?
- General George Patton Jr

Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do
and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
- General George Patton Jr

Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- General George Patton Jr

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner
all the time.
- General George Patton Jr

Wars may be fought with weapons,
but they are won by men.
- General George Patton Jr

I am a soldier, I fight where I am told,
and I win where I fight.
- General George Patton Jr


"Sure, we want to go home.
We want this war over with.
The quickest way
to get it over with
is to go
get the bastards who started it.
The quicker they are whipped,
the quicker we can go home.
The shortest way home
is through Berlin and Tokyo.
And when we get to Berlin,
I am personally going to shoot
that paper hanging
son-of-a-***** Hitler.
Just like I'd shoot a snake!"

- General George S. Patton, Jr
(addressing his troops
before Operation Overlord, June 5, 1944)

"Make your plans to fit the circumstances."
- General George S. Patton, Jr

"Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men."
- General George S. Patton, Jr

"Take calculated risks."
- General George S. Patton, Jr

"There's a great deal of talk about loyalty
from the bottom to the top.
Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary
and is much less prevalent.
One of the most frequently noted characteristics
of great men who have remained great
is loyalty to their subordinates."
- General George S. Patton, Jr

"You're never beaten until you admit it."
- General George S. Patton, Jr

"It is only by doing things others have not that one can advance."
- General George S. Patton, Jr

"A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood."
- General George S. Patton, Jr

"All glory is fleeting."
- General George S. Patton, Jr

"A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances."
- General George S. Patton, Jr

"Success demands a high level of logistical and organizational competence."
- General George S. Patton, Jr

"Perpetual peace is a futile dream."
- General George S. Patton, Jr

"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived."

- General George S. Patton, Jr

"The test of success is not what you do
when your on top.
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."
- General George S. Patton, Jr

"If I win I can't be stopped!
If I lose I shall be dead."
- General George S. Patton, Jr

"Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do
and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
- General George S. Patton, Jr

"Audacity, audacity, always audacity."
(English translation of the French Proverb)
- General George Patton Jr's Favorite Saying

"Magnificent!
Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance.
God help me, I do love it so!"

- General George Patton Jr

"A good plan executed today
is better than a perfect plan executed
at some indefinite point in the future."
- General George Patton Jr

There is only one tactical principle
which is not subject to change.

It is to use the means at hand
to inflict the maximum amount of wound,
death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time."

- General George Patton Jr

"Go forward until the last round is fired
and the last drop of gas is expended...
then go forward on foot!"
- General George Patton Jr

"It is the unconquerable nature of man
and not the nature of the weapon
he uses that ensures victory."
- General George Patton Jr

"Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man."
- General George Patton Jr

"If you are going to win any battle,
you have to do one thing.
You have to make the mind run the body.
Never let the body tell the mind what to do...
the body is never tired if the mind is not tired."
-General George S. Patton

"I dont give a damn about the color of your skin,

just kill as many sons of *****es wearing green as you can."
- Attributed to Patton

"Just drive down that road, until you get blown up"
- General George Patton, about reconnaissance troops

"You must do your damndest and win."

-General George S. Patton

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