1. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.”
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2. “May God have mercy on my enemies, because I won’t”
3. “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
4. “Only the dead have seen the end of the war.”
5. “There are no atheists in foxholes, this isn’t an argument against atheism, it’s an argument against foxholes.”
6. “The numbers, Mason! What do they mean?”
7. “From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.”
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8. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
9. “When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
10. “Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”
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11. “Death solves all problems – no man, no problem.”
12. “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.”
13. “If at first you don’t succeed, Call an airstrike.”
14. “All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.”
15. “Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.”
16. “We make war that we may live in peace.”
17. “A leader leads by example not by force.”
18. “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
19. “Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight.”
20. “Better to fight for something than live for nothing.”
21. “It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it.”
22. “I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one; ‘O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.”
23. “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”
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24. “The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
25. “The deadliest weapon in the world is a MARINE and his rifle!”
26. “In war there is no substitute for victory.”
27. “In war, you win or lose, live or die-and the difference is just an eyelash.”
28. “A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.”
29. “The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.”
30. “In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.”
31. “Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.”
32. “There are things worth fighting for.”
33. “If we don’t end war, war will end us.”
34. “Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
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35. “He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.”
36. “There’s no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.”
37. “Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.”
38. “I think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do to do good?”
39. “They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.”
40. “The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.”
41. “War would end if the dead could return.”
42. “It doesn’t take the most powerful nations on Earth to create the next global conflict. Just the will of a single man.”
43. “You can’t say civilization don’t advance – for in every war, they kill you in a new way.”
44. “Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.”
45. “Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.”
46. “War is as much a punishment to the punisher as it is to the sufferer.”
47. “Money can buy many things. Even power.”
48. “They’ll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you’re going to destroy nations.”
49. “War does not determine who is right – only who is left.”
50. “Fifty-thousand people used to live here. Now it’s a ghost town.”
51. “You know the real meaning of peace only if you have been through the war.”
52. “The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.”
53. “War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.”
54. “Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.”
55. “I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.”
56. “Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.”
57. “War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.”
58. “The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.”
59. “In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.”
60. “Any military commander who is honest will admit he makes mistakes in the application of military power.”
61. “Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
62. “It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.”
63. “If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.”
64. “In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.”
65. “In war there is no prize for the runner-up.”
66. “It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”
67. “I don’t know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.”
68. “Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.”
69. “There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.”
70. “All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing.”
71. “To know you’re close to the end is a kind of freedom. Good time to take… inventory.”
72. “Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.”
73. “So long as there are men there will be wars.”
74. “No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.”
75. “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
76. “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.”
77. “Keep looking below surface appearances. Don’t shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.”
78. “We happy few, we band of brothers/For he today that sheds his blood with me/Shall be my brother.”
79. “There are only two kinds of people that understand Marines; Marines and the enemy. Everyone else has a secondhand opinion.”
80. “Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.”
81. “A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.”
82. “You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.”
83. “Your world as you knew it is gone. How far would you go to bring it back?”
84. “A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”
85. “Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.”
86. “Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.”
87. “The indefinite combination of human infallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations.”
