Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. EisenhowerRead
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget.
The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
Soldiers win battles and generals get the medals.
We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
Either I will come back after hoisting the Tricolor, or I will come back wrapped in it, but I will be back for sure.
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.
The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.
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