Awesome Qoutes

[Darksaga]

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"I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me."
Giuseppe Garibaldi

[david1833]

[Orion]

"When the World is at Peace, a gentleman keeps his Sword by his side." - Wu Tsu
"When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target." -Unknown
"In the beginners mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few" - Suzuki
"Of every one hundred men, Ten shouldn't even be there, Eighty are nothing but targets, Nine are real fighters...We are lucky to have them...They make the battle.
Ah, but the One, One of them is a Warrior...and He will bring the others back.” -Hericletus (circa 500 B.C.)
I Don’t have to like it, I just have to do it. –I read in a book the day before Ranger School
"I will tell His Majesty what a king is. A king does not abide within his tent while his men bleed and die upon the field. A king does not dine while his men go hungry, nor sleep when they stand at watch upon the wall. A king does not command his men's loyalty through fear nor purchase it with gold; he earns their love by the sweat of his own back and the pains he endures for their sake. That which comprises the harshest burden, a king lifts first and sets down last. A king does not require service of those he leads but provides it to them. He serves them, not they him –Gates of Fire (Steven Pressfield)
"Unless you do your best, the day will come when, tired and hungry, you will halt just short of the goal you were ordered to reach, and by halting you will make useless the efforts and deaths of thousands." - Gen. George S. Patton
"We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level
of our training” – Unknown
"Only a warrior chooses pacifism; others are condemned to it." – Unknown
"War is not about who is right, it is about who is left." – Unknown

[zanshin]

"I've got a new strategic communication approach... Shut the fuck up." -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates speaking to NSA chief Tom Donilon following the Bin Laden raid details info dump to the press

[david1833]

"I think the problem here isn't that Obama is such a bad President, it's just that we, the American people are not worthy of him." Old All American

[Hendo]

" The capacity of Soldiers for absorbing punishment and enduring privations
is almost inexhaustible so long as they believe they are getting a square
deal, that their commanders are looking out for them, and that their own
accomplishments are understood and appreciated."

GEN Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1944