"My dad was a Marine. He was one……" — Larry Elder
"My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy."
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32 Quotes by Larry Elder
Larry Elder has 32 quotes on this site.
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A goal without a plan is just a wish.
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Optimism. It's not just a mind-set, it is behavior.
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Good motives aside, white condescension does more damage than good. White condescension says to a black child, 'The rules used…
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Conservatives consider liberals well-intentioned, but misguided. Liberals consider conservatives not only wrong, but really, really bad people.
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Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate…
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According to the Social Security Administration, in 1945, 41.9 workers supported each individual retiree, while today only 3.3 workers support…
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America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the…
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Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health care ? crisis? unemployment, welfare state dependency,…
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But did the Founding Fathers ever intend for the federal government to involve itself in education, health care or retirement…
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Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think…
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More Airmen Quotes
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one of 30 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The vast majority of Airmen we train are going to be somewhere in harm's way within the next year or…
— William R. Looney III
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We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war that our marines, soldiers and airmen are fighting in is…
— Scott Ritter
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Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle. It is…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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To fly! to live as airmen live! Like them to ride the skyways from horizon to horizon, across rivers and…
— Henri Mignet
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The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes…
— Winston Churchill
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We all know that Washington families are making a tremendous commitment to winning the War on Terror. Tonight, more than…
— Patty Murray
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Never in all their history have men been able truly to conceive of the world as one: a single sphere,…
— Archibald MacLeish
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May it not also be that the cause of civilization itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of…
— Winston Churchill
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There are airmen and there are pilots: the first being part bird whose view from aloft is normal and comfortable,…
— Ernest K. Gann
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The airman must possess absolutely untroubled nerves.
— Francis Collins
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He [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] died in harness, and we may well say in battle harness, like his soldiers, sailors…
— Winston Churchill
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