some favorite quotes
"Faith is a charisma not granted to all; instead man has the gift of thought, which can strive after the highest things." -- Carl Jung
"Common sense is not so common."--Thomas Paine
"If you're just executing, then I guarantee that you're not in control of your destiny." -- Colonel Ronald M. Bouchard, 1st Signal Brigade
"Confusion is the science of this particular thing. When you see it, you'll know you're on the right track."-- Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Smith, 63rd Signal Battalion
"People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."--George Orwell
"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."--C.S. Lewis
"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." George C. Scott, as General George S. Patton in the movie, Patton
"The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence."--General George S. Patton
"People have more fun than anybody."-- David Sisler
"Youth is wasted on the young."-- George Bernard Shaw
"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"-- Steven Wright
"Since we do nothing well, there is no reason why we can't expand our scope and do more, worse." -- Major Brian Vile, USARCENT G-6
"It's a hardship tour. We've got to make it hard." -- Major General Russell Honore, 2nd Infantry Division
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