No one ever wins a war.
Trees are among the most useful things grown.
In the Ford Motor Company we emphasize service equally with sales.
When people are ‘stung’ in false investment schemes there are three causes; greed of something for nothing; sheer inability to know their mind; or infantile trustfulness.
The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts.
You dont have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
Public officials are all right if they stay in their proper sphere and perform their proper functions but when they get greedy for wider scope and more power and money they lose their value and become parasites.
[John McCain is]… not a war hero. He’s a war hero – he’s a war hero ’cause he was captured. I Like people that weren’t captured, OK, I hate to tell you.
Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature. I see that a speaker at the week-end said that this was a time when leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture.
You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.
Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.
We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war.
After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask.
I have watched men suffer the anguish of imprisonment, defy appalling human cruelty… break for a moment, then recover inhuman strength to defy their enemies once more.
You don’t win wars by dying for your country you win wars by making the other son of a b*tch die for his.
In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.
Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
It is fatal to enter an war without the will to win it.
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
