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"Nothing leads more surely to disaster than that a military plan
should be pursued with crippled steps and in a lukewarm spirit
in the face of continual nagging within the executive circle.
United ought not to mean that a number of gentlemen are willing to
sit together on condition either that the evil day of decision
is postponed, or that not more than a half-decision should
be provisionally adopted. Even in politics such methods are
unhealthy. In war they are a crime." --Winston Churchill

"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time a tremendous whack." --Winston Churchill

"Victory will never be found by taking the path of
least resistance." --Winston Churchill


“Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence
encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."
Elie Wiesel accepting the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke (1729-97)


The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with
the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your councils or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." --- Sam Adams

"Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me’."
-- George Orwell

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Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

President John F. Kennedy, Inaugural address January 20, 1961

"Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, 'What should be the reward of such sacrifices?' ... If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!" --Samuel Adams

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling that thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person 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." - John Stuart Mill

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril - Churchill
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"There will always be wolves in the world. Transforming ourselves into sheep will not make the wolves go away. It will only provide them with an easier meal." - Richard Poe

"Wise men talk because they have something to say;
fools, because they have to say something." - Plato
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"We do not need to divide America over who served and how. I have personally always believed that many served in many different ways." John F. Kerry, February, 1992