Morning Quotes

[RR691983]

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. So, too, it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it.
-Sun Tzu, the Art of War

Sun Tzu is one of my fave's if you haven't noticed

[Field_Sailor]

"Don't Tread On Me"

-Don't know

[USMCRET6391]

"The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its
warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by
fools."

Thucydides

[USMCRET6391]

"Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates."

F.E. Adcock, British classical scholar

[USMCRET6391]

"Only one military organization can hold and gain ground in war-a ground army supported by tactical aviation with supply lines guarded by the navy."

- General Omar N. Bradley

[USMCRET6391]

-"I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to
turn in his tongue along with his uniform and to mothball his opinions."

General Omar N. Bradley


I like this one, there are some currently retired Generals who should heed this advice.

[USMCRET6391]

"Will yourself to stand ready and courageous on the battlefield. In this way, all that is difficult or dangerous will be yours."

- The Way of the Samurai

[RFleischman]

"The tree of freedom is watered by the blood of every generation"

-Thomas Jefferson

[Field_Sailor]

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

Harry S Truman, quoted by Time, June 9, 1975
33rd president of US (1884 - 1972)

[USMCRET6391]

The young man see the glory in war. The old man sees the vanity

Lakota Proverb

[Field_Sailor]

"Non Sibi Sed Patriae!"

(Not for self, but country)

[Field_Sailor]

In god we trust. All other we monitor

Naval Intelligence