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"There is nothing left but war. And no-one left to fight but us."
"And is he going to attack the kingdom of heaven?" ogunwe looked at her levelly. "we're not going to invade the kingdom," he said, "but if the kingdom invades us, they had better be ready for war, because we are prepared. the kingdom of heaven has been known by that name since the Authority first set himself above the rest of the angels. and we want no part of it. this world is different. we intend to be free citizens of the republic of heaven."
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. Bertrand Russell
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. -- Jules de Gaultier
"It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U. S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the senate." -George McGovern
"Why do we kill people who kill people, to show that killing people is wrong?"
"Join the army; travel to exotic distant lands, meet interesting people, and kill them."
"Eliminate Traffic Congestion: Legalize Vehicular Weaponry."
"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars." -William Westmoreland
A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit. --PS magazine, August 1993 (the Army's magazine of preventive maintenance)
Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war.--Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar "
Don't Wait For Your Ship To Come In, Torpedo It, Then Board It.
"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars." -William Westmoreland
Murphy's Military Laws
1st: Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you are.
2nd: No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy.
3rd: The most dangerous thing in the combat zone is an officer with a map.
4th: Incoming fire has the right of way.
5th: The army with the smartest dress uniform will lose.
6th: If your sergeant can see you, so can the enemy.
7th: Don't be conspicuous. In the combat zone, it draws fire. Out of the combat zone, it draws sergeants.
8th: If you really need an officer in a hurry, take a nap.
9th: The quartermaster has only two sizes, too large and too small.
10th: Never worry about the bullet with your name on it. Instead, worry about shrapnel addressed to 'occupant'.
11th: Friendly fire isn't.
12th: The problem with taking the easy way out is that the enemy has already mined it.
13th: The buddy system is essential to your survival; it gives the enemy somebody else to shoot at.
14th: If your advance is going well, you are walking into an ambush.
15th: The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.
16th: Pilots who can see you when dropping you supplies cannot see you when dropping bombs.
17th: Never forget that your weapon was made by the lowest bidder.
18th: All 5-second grenade fuses will burn down in about 3 seconds.
19th: Try to look unimportant because the bad guys may be low on ammo.
20th: If you are forward of your position, friendly artillery will fall short.
21th: When you have secured an area, don't forget to tell the enemy.
22th: If the enemy is in range, so are you
23th: No combat ready unit has ever passed an inspection.
24th: Radios will fail as soon as you need fire support desperately.
25th: Make it tough for the enemy to get in and you can't get out.
26th: Tracers work both ways.
27th: Anything can get you shot, including doing nothing.
28th: Your weapon was made on an assembly line by the same type of people who made your car.
29th: All 15 round magazines will be a few rounds short in a firefight.
30th: No one EVER carries too much ammo.
One reason the Services have trouble operating jointly is that they don't speak the same language. For example: if you told Navy personnel to "secure a building," they would turn off the lights and lock the doors. Army personnel would occupy the building so no one could enter. Marines would assault the building, capture it, and defend it with suppressive fire and close combat. The Air Force, on the other hand, would take out a three-year lease with an option to buy.
The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power....Power is not a means; it is an end....not power over things, but over men....In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement....There will be no loyalty, except loyalty toward the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother....Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-forever. -George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat. ~George Eliot
A storm is coming; our storm. Emperor - we come for you! -Frank Herbert (Paul Atreides) -Dune
"There is nothing left but war. And no-one left to fight but us."
"A knife in the dark is worth a thousand swords at dawn." - Garnet Johnson-Koehn
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
"It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U. S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the senate." -George McGovern
"Why do we kill people who kill people, to show that killing people is wrong?"
"Join the army; travel to exotic distant lands, meet interesting people, and kill them."
"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars." -William Westmoreland
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. ~Marcel Proust
"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar." -- Julius Caesar
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