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

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

Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing read more

Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing in the future.

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!!

We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement.

We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train read more

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

It isn't the incompetent who destroys an organization. The incompetent never gets in a position to destroy it. It is read more

It isn't the incompetent who destroys an organization. The incompetent never gets in a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the read more

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to give the roar.

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.

We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have now done so much read more

We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have now done so much for so long with so little, we are now capable of doing anything with nothing