There are some great military quotes out there. I have always loved this one! I also reserve the right to post more. What's yours?

2016-08-06T17:49:35-04:00

Can't go wrong with Patton!

Response by SSG Jeremy Sharp made Aug 6 at 2016 5:57 PM

2016-08-06T17:57:29-04:00

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear

Nelson Mandella

Response by CPT Joseph K Murdock made Aug 6 at 2016 6:06 PM

2016-08-06T18:06:11-04:00

It will be better to attack Tunisia before attempting to invade Germany as your first military action.

Response by 1st Lt Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 6 at 2016 6:09 PM

2016-08-06T18:09:00-04:00

"We're surrounded. That simplifies things."

Chesty Puller

Response by LTC Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 6 at 2016 6:31 PM

2016-08-06T18:31:27-04:00

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I could try to quote them all, but really anything that St. Mattis ever said was greatness. He is the Chesty Puller of our generation.

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Response by PO1 Brian Austin made Aug 6 at 2016 6:43 PM

2016-08-06T18:43:39-04:00

"We have met the enemy and they are ours..."
Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry - 1813, Battle of Lake Erie

"Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! (torpedoes back then were actually tethered mines, so he and the rest of the ships went full speed through a mine field)
Adm Farragut - 1864, Battle of Mobile Bay

"Take her down!"
Cmdr Howard Gilmore, USS Growler (SS-215). In response to oncoming Japanese gun boat. He laid severely wounded on the conning tower and didn't make it back into the sub.

Response by PO1 John Miller made Aug 6 at 2016 6:51 PM

2016-08-06T18:51:20-04:00

“I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy.” ~ John F Kennedy

Response by SFC John Hill made Aug 6 at 2016 6:52 PM

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Response by 1stSgt Eugene Harless made Aug 6 at 2016 6:59 PM

2016-08-06T18:59:11-04:00

"It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we would grow too fond of it" Robert E Lee after watching an evening Parade of his Army.

Response by LTC Tom Jones made Aug 6 at 2016 7:23 PM

2016-08-06T19:23:55-04:00

"The best way to defeat an enemy is to make him a friend," A. Lincoln.

Second best:

"Give me a hand full of brightly colored ribbon and I will conquer the world," Napoleon.l

Response by LTC Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 6 at 2016 7:24 PM

2016-08-06T19:24:32-04:00

"The Marine Corps where every paycheck is a fortune, every meal a banquet and every formation a parade" - anonymous

Response by SN Greg Wright made Aug 6 at 2016 8:09 PM

2016-08-06T20:09:35-04:00

"Never invade Russia during the winter."
~Everyone who ever tried it.

Response by Sgt Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 6 at 2016 8:23 PM

2016-08-06T20:23:27-04:00

Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem.
Ronald Reagan, President of the United States; 1985

Response by MSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 6 at 2016 8:42 PM

2016-08-06T20:42:01-04:00

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
~William Tecumseh Sherman

Response by MSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 6 at 2016 8:43 PM

2016-08-06T20:43:51-04:00

"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week."
~George S. Patton

Response by MSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 6 at 2016 8:46 PM

2016-08-06T20:46:17-04:00

"If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting."
~Curtis LeMay

Response by SGT Philip Roncari made Aug 6 at 2016 9:12 PM

2016-08-06T21:12:52-04:00

For its Tommy this /and it's Tommy that /and it's Tommy where's your soul / but it that thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll
Rudyard Kipling

Response by CPT Jim Schwebach made Aug 6 at 2016 11:06 PM

2016-08-06T23:06:56-04:00

“Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

Response by Capt Michael Greene made Aug 7 at 2016 12:00 AM

2016-08-07T00:00:42-04:00

"No battle is won until a 19-year-old with a rifle stands on a hill unopposed" -- my Dad, a 25-year veteran of three wars and a POW camp.

Response by COL Lee Flemming made Aug 7 at 2016 12:28 AM

2016-08-07T00:28:30-04:00

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." George Orwell

Response by ENS Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 7 at 2016 12:49 AM

2016-08-07T00:49:31-04:00

"A rising tide lifts all boats" - JFK

Response by A1C Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 7 at 2016 4:41 AM

2016-08-07T04:41:55-04:00

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." -Ronald Reagan

Response by LTC Tom Jones made Aug 7 at 2016 9:00 AM

2016-08-07T09:00:42-04:00

Another one: "Get there firstus with the mostus," Confederate General of cavalry, Nathan Bedford Forrest.

Response by LT Bob McFarland DC USNR (Ret'd) made Aug 7 at 2016 11:51 PM

2016-08-07T23:51:05-04:00

“Son, if the Marines thought you needed a wife, we would have issued you one.”

—General Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller, in reply to a Marine’s formal request for permission to be married.

Response by SCPO Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 8 at 2016 12:18 AM

2016-08-08T00:18:32-04:00

That was actually...other poor dumb bastard...

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 8 at 2016 3:46 AM

2016-08-08T03:46:34-04:00

My two that I rotate below my signature block:

“The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.” - Colin Powell

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." -- Winston Churchill

Response by Lt Col Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 8 at 2016 5:32 AM

2016-08-08T05:32:51-04:00

"A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them."--M. D. Arnold

"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death." -- Sun Tzu

Response by SPC Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 8 at 2016 3:35 PM

2016-08-08T15:35:53-04:00

Porn Stars don't go in dry why should you? (In reference to applying oil to an M16)
- SDS Ninja, Sand Hill

Response by SSG Gerhard S. made Aug 8 at 2016 9:30 PM

2016-08-08T21:30:13-04:00

Response by Capt Private RallyPoint Member made May 17 at 2017 11:39 AM

2017-05-17T11:39:49-04:00

I don't recall who but the response to a call for surrender was met with

NUTS.

Response by SGT Morrison (Mike) Hogwood made May 17 at 2017 12:21 PM

2017-05-17T12:21:16-04:00

being in the Army is never having to remember what to wear to work and wondering if your First Sergeant was ever a private