"Those who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty nor security."

Benjamin Franklin




“Please accept my resignation. I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member. “

Groucho Marx (1895–1977)




“We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford; the working people are hopelessly bound to their native shores.”

“The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.”

"It is better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep."

Benito Mussolini (1883–1945)




“About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)




“Should the German people lay down their arms, the Soviets ... would occupy all eastern and south-eastern Europe together with the greater part of the Reich. Over all this territory, which with the Soviet Union included, would be of enormous extent, an iron curtain would at once descend.”

Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945)




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

George Orwell



"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man 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."

John Stuart Mill



"Let your plans be dark and as impenetratable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt."

Sun Tzu, The Art of War



"Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking."

Ferdinand Foch at the Battle of the Marne



Anybody who doesn't have fear is an idiot. It's just that you must make the fear work for you. Hell, when somebody shot at me, it made me madder than hell, and all I wanted to do was shoot back.

General Robin Olds, USAF.



"If you're not gonna pull the trigger, don't point the gun."

James Baker