"Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don't have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know that fear and other concerns cloud your mind from what's going on and what you should be involved in." - Buzz Aldrin

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"Learn from the masters, learn from your contemporaries. Always try to update yourself." - James Stewart

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"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory." - George S. Patton Jr.

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"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes." - William Prescott

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"A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage." - Robert McNamara

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"Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country." - Calvin Coolidge

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"True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is." - Norman Schwarzkopf

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"Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive." - Dean Rusk

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"We have shared the incommunicable experience of war. We felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youths, our hearts were touched by fire." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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"Our only weapons in this war of your lifetime are the weapons of the mind." - Paul Tsongas

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"On social occasions the formality of strictly military occasions should be relaxed, and a spirit of friendliness and goodwill should prevail." - John A. Lejeune

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"In my experience, Marines are gung ho no matter what. They will all fight to the death. Every one of them just wants to get out there and kill. They are bad-ass, hard-charging mothers." - Chris Kyle

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"In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die." - Arthur M. Schlesinger

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"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

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"To be a successful soldier, you must know history." - George S. Patton Jr.

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"Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time." - Leon Panetta

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"Confusion in battle is what pain is in childbirth - the natural order of things." - Maurice Tugwell

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“Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.” - John Allen

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"Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime." - Adlai E. Stevenson

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"There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn't bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders." - Curtis LeMay

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