“Most firefights go by so fast that acts of bravery or cowardice are more or less spontaneous. Soldiers might live the rest… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
What I saw when I was a child was my father who was a pilot, and because of circumstances was thrown into… — Rahul Gandhi Copy Share Image
A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity… — Allen West Copy Share Image
In the army, all combat officers are taught the "Estimate of the Situation": When you are faced with a problem - take… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars,… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
I miss the good old days when Daimons were warriors and combat trained. The ones I found tonight knew nothing about fighting,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A gun I had been brought down by a gun. It was practically comical. Cheaters, I thought. I’d spent my life focusing… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
It is impossible to put into words what we have been through. What happened exceeded our boldest dreams. The Germans fled twice… — Mordechai Anielewicz Copy Share Image
This world belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
Lent is like a long 'retreat' during which we can turn back into ourselves and listen to the voice of God, in… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
Criminal justice, as it pertains to the Goldmans and Morgan Stanleys of the world, is not adversarial combat, with cops and crooks… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Would you render the same level of support to someone who hadn't conscientiously objected, but rather instead rolled a grenade under their… — Ward Churchill Copy Share Image
This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
As an infantry officer who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, I have led men in combat and trained them on… — Pete Hegseth Copy Share Image
Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human… — John Strachan Copy Share Image
That's give [Donald Trump] so much attention. And it's so funny. There actually have conflicting opinions on women in combat, in the… — John McCain Copy Share Image
I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
Everything I had ever learned about air fighting taught me that the man who is aggressive, who pushes a fight, is the… — Robert S. Johnson Copy Share Image
Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
The first murmurings from the liberal part of the U.S.A. that we were somehow in the wrong, brutal killers, bullying other countries;… — Marcus Luttrell Copy Share Image
I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served… — Marc Garneau Copy Share Image
As president, I wouldn't be making the day-to-day combat decisions. The job of the commander-in-chief is to lay the objective out and… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Certainly we're going to continue to see those commercials that I call 30-second drive-by shootings. And they're going to have a lot… — Tom Barrett Copy Share Image
I was sent to Korea, which was excellent training for what came later. I was assigned to remain on duty until I… — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
The American people overwhelmingly want our troops out of Iraq. They want the federal government to take real and immediate action to… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Combat isn't where you might die -- though that does happen -- it's where you find out whether you get to keep… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
It is true to say that the first kill can influence the whole future career of a fighter pilot. Many to whom… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
There's something wonderfully exciting about the quiet sing song of an aeroplane overhead with all the guns in creation lighting out at… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Thirty years ago, in 1976, the notion of organized activity to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was an… — Robert Brady Copy Share Image
As a fighter pilot I know from my own experiences how decisive surprise and luck can be for success, which in the… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What is needed [to combat terrorism], in my view, is resolve, not retreat; courage, not concession. Rather than thinking in terms of… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
Memorial bracelets memorializing prisoners of war, missing in action, killed in action, and those who died of wounds or injuries sustained in… — James F. Amos Copy Share Image
In Paris... I achieved a freer attitude toward anti-Semitism, which I now began to understand historically and to pardon. Above all, I… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
When television killed comedy and love stories, the movie makers went in slugging. They offered the downbeat, the degenerate as competition. This… — Joan Crawford Copy Share Image