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There seem to be a lot of armchair generals in the US now that have never been to war.
Here's a few quotes from one of the finest generals the USA ever had. His integrity is unimpeachable. He led the defeat of the real Axis of Evil at a point when things looked very bleak for the free democracies. He seems to be speaking about the present.
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
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Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
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How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?
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I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
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The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
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There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
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This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
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War settles nothing.
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We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
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We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
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Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
President Dwight David Eisenhower
There seem to be a lot of armchair generals in the US now that have never been to war.
Here's a few quotes from one of the finest generals the USA ever had. His integrity is unimpeachable. He led the defeat of the real Axis of Evil at a point when things looked very bleak for the free democracies. He seems to be speaking about the present.
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
-
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
-
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
-
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
-
How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?
-
I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
-
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
-
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
-
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
-
Only Americans can hurt America.
-
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
-
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
-
There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
-
This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
-
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
-
Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
-
War settles nothing.
-
We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
-
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
-
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
President Dwight David Eisenhower
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