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"If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more murderous war, each of the two peoples will fight with confidence in its own victory, but the most certain victors will be the forces of destruction and barbarism."
- Édouard Daladier, French Premier (1939)

"Come on you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?"
Sergeant Dan Daly, 4 june 1918.
Leading Marines at Belleus woods.
Dan Daly served with Marine Fourth Brigade in WW2.
Daly is one of the great legends of the Marines 

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.
-Josephus Daniels

"It is part of a sailor’s life to die well"
- Commodore Stephen Decatur, on the death of Captain James Lawrence, June 1813

"Follow me if I advance! Kill me if I retreat! Revenge me if I die!"
   - Ngo Dinh Diem (on becoming President of Vietnam)

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
- Benjamin Disraeli

"The enemy holds every trump card, covering all areas with long-range air patrols and using location methods against which we still have no warning... The enemy knows all our secrets and we know none of his."
- Grand Admiral Doenitz, Commander in Chief of the German Navy (1943)

“I asked for a few Americans. They brought with them the courage of a whole army.”
-General Abdul Rashid Dostum, on the Green Berets in Nov. 2001

The issue is not war and peace, rather, how best to preserve our freedom.
-General Russell E. Dougherty

To conquer the command of the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat.
- General Giulio Douhet: The Command of the Air, 1921

"Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the changes in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after they occur"
- General Giulio Douhet, "Command of the Air" 1921.