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- The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
- George Hyman Rickover
- Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.
- George C. Marshall (1880 - 1959)
- Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
- Unknown
- The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
- John Foster Dulles
- Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
- Gary Wills
- I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799)
- Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today, at home and around the world!
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Inaugural Address, 1961
- If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer waste manpower by carrying the flag into battle. Instead we need battalions of electronic engineers to keep the terrible machinery grinding.
- Ernest K. Gann, The Black Watch
- Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.
- Herman Melville (1819 - 1891), Moby Dick
- The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
- Hemingway
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