"In war, truth is the first casualty" -Aeschylus
"Incoming fire has the right of way." -Unknown
"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind."
-John F. Kennedy
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left"
-Burtrand Russell
"A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons."
-Admiral David D. Porter, USN
"The press is our chief ideological weapon."
-Nikita Khrushchev
"Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!"
-Nikita Khrushchev
"If the enemy is in range, so are you."
-Infantry Journal
"Cost of a single Tomahawk cruise Missile: $900,000"
"Cost of a single F-22 Raptor: $135 million"
"Cost of a single AC-130U Gunship: $190 million"
"Cost of a single F-117A Nighthawk: $122 Million"
"Cost of a single B-2 Bomber: $2.2 Billion"
"So long as there are men, there will be wars."
-Albert Einstein
"Aim towards the Enemy."
-Instruction printed on US Rocket Launcher
"I think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do
to do good?"
-Robert McNamara
"Any military commander who is honest will admit he makes mistakes in the
application of military power."
-Robert McNamara
"You can make a throne of bayonets, but you cant sit on it for long."
-Boris Yeltsin
"The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle!"
-General John J. Pershing
"Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty."
-Ronald Reagan
"Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist."
-Yassar Arafat
"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result."
-Winston Churchill
"War is delightful to those who have not yet experienced it."
-Erasmus
"Friendly fire - isn't."
-Unknown
"Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are for
finishing it."
-Will Rogers
"I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only
when we use them for good or evil that they become good or evil."
-William Gibson
"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing."
-Edmund Burke
"Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die."
-Herbert Hoover
"The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong,
unless proved otherwise."
-Colin Powell
"Freedom is not free, but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share."
-Ned Dolan
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV
will be fought with sticks and stones."
-Albert Einstein
"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The
hard part is doing it."
-Norman Schwarzkopf
“If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a
hundred battles.”
-Sun Tzu
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character,
give him power."
-Abraham Lincoln
"If we can't persuade nations with comparable values of the merits of our
cause, we'd better reexamine our reasoning."
-Robert McNamara
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of
patriots and tyrants."
-Thomas Jefferson
"If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage, it's probably a
helicopter -- and therefore, unsafe."
-Unknown
"Five second fuses only last three seconds."
-Infantry Journal
"If your attack is going too well, you're walking into an ambush."
-Infantry Journal
"No battle plan survives contact with the enemy."
-Colin Powell
"When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend."
-U.S. Army Training Notice
"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."
-John F. Kennedy
"Cost of a single Javelin Missile: $80,000"
"A leader leads by example, not by force."
-Sun Tzu
"If you can't remember, the claymore is pointed toward you."
-Unknown
"There are only two kinds of people that understand Marines: Marines and the
enemy. Everyone else has a second-hand opinion."
-General William Thornson
"The more marines I have around, the better I like it."
-General Clark, U.S. Army
"Never forget that your weapon was made by the lowest bidder."
-Unknown
"Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just
because you might not like what you find."
-Colin Powell
"Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo."
-Infantry Journal
"The world will not accept dictatorship or domination."
-Mikhail Gorbachev
"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before
destroying them."
-Voltaire
"Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just brave five minutes
longer."
-Ronald Reagan
"In the end, it was luck. We were *this* close to nuclear war, and luck
prevented it."
-Robert McNamara
"Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a
difference in the world, but the Marines don't have that problem."
-Ronald Reagan
"It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed."
-U.S. Air Force Marshal
"We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to
visit violence on those who would harm us."
-George Orwell
"If at first you don't succeed, call an air strike."
-Unknown
"Tracers work both ways."
-U.S. Army Ordinance
"Teamwork is essential, it gives them other people to shoot at."
-Unknown
"The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war."
-Ralph Waldo Emmerson
"We're in a world in which the possiblity of terrorism, married up with
technology, could make us very, very sorry we didn't act."
-Condoleeza Rice
"All warfare is based on deception."
-Sun Tzu
"The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will
lead to the destruction of nations."
-Robert McNamara
"In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash."
-General Douglas MacArthur
"You cant say civilization dont advance - for in every war, they kill you in a
new way."
-Will Rogers
"They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and
you're going to destroy nations."
-Robert McNamara
"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."
-General Norman Schwarzkopf
"Any soldier worth his salt should be anti-war. And still, there are things
worth fighting for."
-General Norman Schwarzkopf
"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."
-General Douglas MacArthur
"Let your plans be as dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall
like a thunderbolt."
-Sun Tzu
"Anyone, who truly wants to go to war, has truly never been there before!"
-Larry Reeves
"Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered
automatic weapons."
-General Douglas MacArthur
"Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has
no brain."
-Vladimir Putin
"My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth."
-George Washington
"Cluster bombing from B-52s are very, very, accurate. The bombs are guaranteed
to always hit the ground."
-USAF Ammo Troop
"If a man has done his best, what else is there?"
-General George S. Patton
"The bursting radius of a hand-grenade is always one foot greater than your
jumping range."
-Unknown
"The tyrant always talks as if he's preserving the best interests of his people
when he actually acts to undermine them."
-Ramman Kenoun
"Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom - for himself."
-Elbert Hubbard
all qoutes are not a power