Aye. Fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live. At least awhile... And dying in your beds, many years read more

Aye. Fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live. At least awhile... And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance -- just one chance -- to come back here and tell our enemies that they make take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!!

So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence.

So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence.

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer.

The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you read more

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to read more

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the read more

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.