Quotes
Since I am currently beating my brains out with three papers (and preparing for finals), rather than torture my audience with more of my incessant ramblings, here are a few of my favorite quotes:
Andrew J. Galambos
"There has been one achievement in the entire history of the human species, just one historical development, count it - one - that has ever occurred which has had any significance in developing a greater rather than a lesser concept of freedom. That concept, that particular movement, was called the American Revolution."
George Bernard Shaw
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
Hanlon’s Razor
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
GySgt. Daniel J. "Dan" Daly, USMC; Belleau Wood, 6 June 1918
"Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?"
Cpl. Jeff Sornig, USMC; in Navy Times, November 1994
"I love the Corps for those intangible possessions that cannot be issued: pride, honor, integrity, and being able to carry on the traditions for generations of warriors past."
Unknown
"The most dangerous thing in the world is a Second Lieutenant with a map and a compass."
Unknown
"Sweat dries, blood clots, and bones heal. Suck it up, be a Marine."
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian Wars
"That [state] which separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting by fools."
Something Positive (Online Comic - Sept. 12th, 2002)
"I used to think every day I didn’t wake up and gargle a few rounds from a revolver was a victory, but little "Golden" moments like this make me wonder, 'A Victory for who?'"
Robert A. Heinlein
"The moral difference between a soldier and a civilian is that the soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member. The civilian does not."
John Stuart Mill (1868)
"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."
Harry S. Truman
"I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers."
(John) Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), 30th US President
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."
Pan Ku
"If you must choose between two paths, either of which will bring death and defeat, then choose the path wherein you die fighting for honor and justice."
Bran Rickey
"Luck is the residue of design."
Andrew J. Galambos
"There has been one achievement in the entire history of the human species, just one historical development, count it - one - that has ever occurred which has had any significance in developing a greater rather than a lesser concept of freedom. That concept, that particular movement, was called the American Revolution."
George Bernard Shaw
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
Hanlon’s Razor
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
GySgt. Daniel J. "Dan" Daly, USMC; Belleau Wood, 6 June 1918
"Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?"
Cpl. Jeff Sornig, USMC; in Navy Times, November 1994
"I love the Corps for those intangible possessions that cannot be issued: pride, honor, integrity, and being able to carry on the traditions for generations of warriors past."
Unknown
"The most dangerous thing in the world is a Second Lieutenant with a map and a compass."
Unknown
"Sweat dries, blood clots, and bones heal. Suck it up, be a Marine."
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian Wars
"That [state] which separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting by fools."
Something Positive (Online Comic - Sept. 12th, 2002)
"I used to think every day I didn’t wake up and gargle a few rounds from a revolver was a victory, but little "Golden" moments like this make me wonder, 'A Victory for who?'"
Robert A. Heinlein
"The moral difference between a soldier and a civilian is that the soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member. The civilian does not."
John Stuart Mill (1868)
"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."
Harry S. Truman
"I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers."
(John) Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), 30th US President
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."
Pan Ku
"If you must choose between two paths, either of which will bring death and defeat, then choose the path wherein you die fighting for honor and justice."
Bran Rickey
"Luck is the residue of design."
