"The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize. It's to change the behavior of the people that are being terrorized." - Donald Rumsfeld

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"There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer." - Barnard Elliott

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"Medicare for all' sounds simple, but it's not. It creates an enormous bureaucracy and really dire consequences that people don't understand." - Dan Crenshaw

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"If one road led to hell and the other to Mexico, I would be indifferent which to take." - Nathan B. Forrest

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"What I can do for my country, I am willing to do." - Christopher Gadsden

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"Ensure that no Marine who honorably wore the eagle, globe and anchor is lost to the Marine Corps family." - James L. Jones

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"There are no atheists in foxholes." - William Thomas Cummings

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"The greatest leader in the world could never win a campaign unless he understood the men he had to lead." - Omar N. Bradley

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"May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't." - George S. Patton Jr.

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"The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning." - David Hackworth

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"The Marine Corps has just been called by the New York Times, 'The elite of this country.' I think it is the elite of the world." - William Halsey

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"I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.” - Clara Barton

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"Good work ain't cheap, cheap work ain't good." - Sailor Jerry

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"A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general." - Abraham Lincoln

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"It won't hurt you. It's just to kill plants. It's called Agent Orange...and it won't bother humans." - Karl Marlantes

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"Don't divide the world into "THEM and US." - Donald Rumsfeld

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"Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions - those institutions we proudly called the American way of life." - Douglas MacArthur

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"I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive." - Michael Hastings

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"Three people can keep a secret as long as two of them are dead." - G. Gordon Liddy

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"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of all who threaten it." - U.S. Navy SEALs

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