Scott -- this handful of websites does not reflect the overall attitude of the Corps. On the whole, we know our mission, we are proud of our successes in bringing freedom to an oppressed people, and we are proud to be defending our nation from those who want nothing more than to kill us, even at the cost of their own life.
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."
- George Washington
"War is cruelty. There's no use trying to refine it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over."
- William Tecumseh Sherman
"War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want."
- General William T. Sherman
"Si vis pacem, para bellum" ("Let him who desires peace prepare for war.")
- Flavius Vegetius
"There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away.
There is a time to fight, and that time has now come."
--Peter Muhlenberg
"We make war that we may live in peace."
- Aristotle
"May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't."
- General George S. Patton
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived."
- General George S. Patton
"No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable
as the will and moral courage of free men and women."
- President Ronald Reagan
"If I win I can't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead."
- General George S. Patton
"Strength lies not in defense but in attack."
- Marquis de Acerba
"From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered
with the blood of tyrants and patriots."
- Thomas Jefferson
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
- Thomas Jefferson
"In war there is no substitute for victory."
- General Douglas MacArthur
"Part of the American dream is to live long and die young.
Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live."
- General Douglas MacArthur
"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others."
- Niccolò Machiavelli
"Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier."
- Samuel Johnson
"The purpose of all war is peace."
- Saint Augustine
"Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings - - give us that precious jewel, and you may take everything else.
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately,
nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."
- Patrick Henry
"Sometimes it is entirely appropriate to kill a fly with a sledge hammer."
- Major Holdridge
Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy,
forget in time that men have died to win them."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"To contend for our own liberty, and to deny that blessing to others, involves an inconsistency not to be excused."
- John Jay
"For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so,
a well-organized and armed militia is their best security."
- Thomas Jefferson
"These are the times that try men’s souls.
The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis,
shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now,
deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."
- Thomas Paine
"Freedom! No word was ever spoken that held out greater hope,
demanded greater sacrifice, needed more to be nurtured,
blessed more the giver, cursed more its destroyer,
or came closer to being God's will on earth.
And I think that's worth fighting for.
-General Omar N. Bradley
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
- Winston Churchill
"The issue is not war and peace, rather, how best to preserve our freedom."
- General Russell E. Dougherty
"The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave..."
- Patrick Henry
"War, if reason prevails, is waged to obtain a better peace than
that which existed prior to the hostilities."
- Bela K. Kiraly
"War can only be abolished by war, and in order to get rid of
the gun it is necessary to take up the gun."
- Mao Tse-Tung
"I do not believe in vile acquittals, phony appeasements, easy forgiveness.
Even less, in the exploitation or the blackmail of the word Peace.
When peace stands for surrender, fear, loss of dignity and freedom,
it is no longer peace. It is suicide."
- Oriana Fallaci
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
- Nathan Hale
"There can be no peace but that which is forced by the sword."
- Henry Halleck
"Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won.
For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war."
- Ernest Miller Hemmingway
"Polemos Pater Panton"
("War is the father of all things")
- Heraclitus
"We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth."
- Abraham Lincoln
"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 which 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 Stewart Mill
And one for the war protestors: "The morale of the soldier is the greatest single factor in war."
- Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery
