*Author's Note*
These are some quotes I have picked up or have snatched from Call of Duty. Yeah, I know, kinda sad. But some are true and others can make you think.
Do not ask what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. -JFK
This is more of a pro-American thing.
Rome did not fall in a day, but as you can see, it's not around anymore. -Unknown
If you work hard enough, you will succeed eventually. It may take time, though.
History is written by the victor. History is full of liars. When the day is done, his truth becomes written. His truth becomes THE truth. He will be the hero. The loser is disgraced for the victor does not honor the loser. -Made famous by Cpt.Price, said by Winston Churchill
The day will come when man will build a machine so threatening, so lethal, and capable of mass destruction, that war will die or resort to minor conflicts for man will fear this machine so much. -Thomas Edison
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. -JFK
War is delightful to those who have not experienced it. -Erasmus
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. -Herbert Hoover
All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is for good men to do nothing. -Edmund Burke
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea will live on. -JFK
You don't know what you got, 'till it's gone. -Just a saying
In war, the first casualty is truth. -Aeschylus
People lie to get what they want. Greed is a powerful weapon.
War does not determine who is right- only who is left. -Burtrand Russell
War does not decide who is correct. Only who survives.
So long as there are men, there will be wars. -Albert Einstein
Men have a natural instinct to fight.
Rather than mourn the ones you have lost, thank God for giving them a chance to live. - Gen. George S. Patton
All things, good and evil, come to an end. -Unknown
Nothing lasts forever.
An eye for an eye makes the world blind. -Ghandi
He is saying this about the Hammurabi Code (a foot for a foot, and eye for an eye). Revenge is not the only answer.
You can make a throne of bayonets, but you can't sit on it for very long. -Boris Yeltsin
You can build your self up, but, eventually, you will fall.
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of Liberty. -Ronald Reagan
For example: organized military force, not a few free-lancers.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.-Abraham Lincoln
Power shows a mans true self. You can hide it, but only until the eyes of the world are upon you.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. -Thomas Jefferson
Tyrants must rise so patriots have a purpose. But both alike must loose something during their struggle.
A true leader leads by example, not by force. -Sun Tzu
A true leader does not use power to be powerful. He leads by showing people what is right.
If your attack is going too well, your walking into an ambush. -US Infantry Journal
Sometimes in life, when things are going too well, something is not right. Life is not that easy.
How much evil must man do to do good? -Robert McNamara
We believe war will bring peace eventually. But revenge is always fought with more blood and revenge. Will it ever end?
Life's not fair.- the annoying thing adults say when you say,"That's not fair".
All gave some, some gave all.-Slogan for POW/MIA Organization
All soldiers contributed something of theirs. Some contributed everything: their lives.
Freedom comes with the highest cost :blood.-Unknown
People must fight and die to preserve liberty and freedom.
With great power comes great responsibility-Spider-man
Resort to the Abe Lincoln saying (further up) and you'll get it.
Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it-Will Rogers
Technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or evil that they become good or evil-William Gibson
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones-Albert Einstein
This man invented the atomic bomb. He suggests that people will nearly wipe themselves out with this creation and that humanity will start from scratch.
No one asks to be a hero. No one wants to be. It just happens sometimes.- Sgt. Matt Eversman
Either you die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.- Harvey Dent, The Dark
Knight
The only people who have seen the end of war are the dead one's. -Plato
"Don't tell me the sky is the limit when there are footprints on the moon"-Unknown
"If a man does his best, what else is there?"-General George S. Patton
Many times, people are expected to do better than what they can. If someone has expected something better than what you are capable, how do you feel?
"A lie gets half way around the world before the truth even gets its pants on"-Sir Winston Churchill
"Do, or do not. There is no try" -Yoda
"When you do common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world"- George Washington Carver
"A people that values its privileges above it's principals soon loses both." -Dwight D. Eisenhower
America is headed down this road.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty"- Winston Churchill
I basically speaks for itself.
"Great and good are seldom the same man." -Winston Churchill
Have you ever met someone who was famous and had a good heart at the same time? The saying "Never meet your hero" applies to this saying.
"Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything from winning." - Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Don't do the unnecessary. Work only when there is a reward, whether it be money or satisfaction.
"Pessimism never won a battle." -Dwight D. Eisenhower
Have you ever completed something and felt good about it when you worked on it with a negative attitude?
"There is no victory at bargain basement prices" -Dwight D. Eisenhower
The cost of victory is high. No dispute is won with ease.
"It is better to fight for something than live for nothing." -Gen. George S. Patton
Make something of your life. Escape what the world has become and live while you can.
"Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of mankind."- Gen. George S. Patton
In life, you must be prepared to move, for it will not stop for you.
"An army is a team: it lives, eats, sleeps, and fights as a team. This individual heroic stuff is a lot of crap." - Gen. George S. Patton
No one man is a hero. He would have fallen with the rest or become a nobody had it not been the people who helped him.
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
"Never tell people how to get there. Tell them where to go, and you will be astounded."
These quotes are similar.
"If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing."- Napoleon Bonaparte
Unfortunately, many people have followed this quote. A true person can find a way to deliver also. Are you a true person?
"When the world is on the brink of annihilation, never does a single man save it. Only when men band together, to fight tyranny, does the free world live on." -Me
"Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you are going to get." -Forrest Gump
