Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Salutes the Armed Forces Quotes

“They said this mystery never shall cease; the priest promotes war, and the soldier peace.” —William Blake”
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“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.” —Matthew 5:9”
― Bathroom Readers' Institute, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Salutes the Armed Forces

“Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.” —Omar Bradley”
― Bathroom Readers' Institute, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Salutes the Armed Forces

“You can’t say civilization don’t advance . . . in every war they kill you a new way.” —Will Rogers”
― Bathroom Readers' Institute, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Salutes the Armed Forces

“Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn’t have as many monuments to unveil.” —Frank McKinney Hubbard”
― Bathroom Readers' Institute, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Salutes the Armed Forces

“There never was a good war or a bad peace.” —Benjamin Franklin”
― Bathroom Readers' Institute, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Salutes the Armed Forces

“One man with courage makes a majority.” —Andrew Jackson”
― Bathroom Readers' Institute, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Salutes the Armed Forces

“War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle.” —John Singleton Mosby, 1887”
― Bathroom Readers' Institute, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Salutes the Armed Forces

“Now Parker instructed his soldiers, “Stand your ground; don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.”
― Bathroom Readers' Institute, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Salutes the Armed Forces

“A coward dies a thousand deaths . . . a soldier dies but once.” —Tupac Shakur”
― Bathroom Readers' Institute, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Salutes the Armed Forces

“A professional soldier understands that war means killing people . . . war means families left without fathers and mothers. All you have to do is hold your first dying soldier in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that his life is flowing out and you can’t do anything about it. Then you understand the horror of war. any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still, there are things worth fighting for.” —H. Norman Schwarzkopf”
― Bathroom Readers' Institute, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Salutes the Armed Forces

“It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one, since its beginning and end are not under the control of the same man.” —Sallust, 86–34 BC”
― Bathroom Readers' Institute, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Salutes the Armed Forces

“The mere absence of war is not peace.” —President John F. Kennedy”
― Bathroom Readers' Institute, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Salutes the Armed Forces

“And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty.” —Douglas MacArthur”
― Bathroom Readers' Institute, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Salutes the Armed Forces

“In peace, the sons bury their fathers, but in war, the fathers bury their sons.” —Croesus”
― Bathroom Readers' Institute, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Salutes the Armed Forces

“It is well that war is so terrible; otherwise, we would grow too fond of it.” —General Robert E. Lee”
― Bathroom Readers' Institute, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Salutes the Armed Forces

“They fought together as brothers in arms; they died together and now they sleep side by side...To them, we have a solemn obligation...to ensure that their sacrifice will help make this a better and safer world in which to live.”—Admiral Nimitz at the official surrender of Japan on September 2, 1945, in Tokyo Bay.”
― Bathroom Readers' Institute, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Salutes the Armed Forces

“Any nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.” —Abraham Lincoln”
― Bathroom Readers' Institute, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Salutes the Armed Forces

“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” —George Orwell”
― Bathroom Readers' Institute, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Salutes the Armed Forces

“The security of every society must always depend, more or less, upon the martial spirit of the great body of the people.” —Adam Smith”
― Bathroom Readers' Institute, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Salutes the Armed Forces

“Tis the soldier’s life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.” —William Shakespeare”
― Bathroom Readers' Institute, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Salutes the Armed Forces

“Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die.” —Herbert Hoover”
― Bathroom Readers' Institute, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Salutes the Armed Forces