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"The hardships of forced marches are often more painful than the dangers of battle"
- Gen. Thomas Stonewall Jackson

"Then, Sir, we will give them the bayonet!"
- Stonewall Jakcon’s reply to Colonel B.E Bee when he reported that the enemy were beating them back. 
At the first battle of Bull Run, July 1861.

"Under divine blessing, we must rely on the bayonet when firearms cannot be furnished"
- Stonewall Jackson, letter accompanying his requisition for 1000 pikes. April 1861

"Don't say it's impossible! Turn your command over to the next officer. If he can't do it, I'll find someone who can, even if I have to take him from the ranks!"
   - General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

"When war does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard."
   - General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

"I yield to no man in sympathy for the gallant men under my command; but I am obliged to sweat them tonight, so that I may save their blood tomorrow."
   - General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

"Once you get them running, you stay right on top of them, and that way a small force can defeat a large one every time... Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger; it must make up in activity what it lacks in strength."
   - General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

"Who could not conquer with such troops as these?"
   - General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

“My troops may fail to take a position, but are never driven from one!”
   - General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

"Nobody dislikes war more than warriors." 
-Daniel James, Jr., military analyst

"For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security."
- Thomas Jefferson: message to Congress, Nov. 1808

"From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots."
-Thomas Jefferson

"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism."
-Thomas Jefferson

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." 
- Thomas Jefferson

"In matters of style swim with the current in matters of principle stand like a rock." 
- Thomas Jefferson

We are not about to send American boys nine or ten thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
-Lyndon Johnson, Oct. 1964

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.
- Lyndon B. Johnson

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
- Lyndon B. Johnson

"Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier."
-Samuel Johnson

"We supplicate all rulers not to remain deaf to the cry of mankind. Let them do everything in their power to save peace. By so doing they will spare the world the horrors of a war that would have disastrous consequences, such as nobody can foresee."
- Pope John XXIII

"As the excited passions of hostile people are of themselves a powerful enemy, both the general and his government should use their best efforts to allay them."
-Lieutenant General Antoine-Henri Baron de Jomini, 1838

"I have not yet begun to fight."
   - Captain John Paul Jones (aboard the Bon Homme Richard)

"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way."
   - John Paul Jones (later adopted by the US Navy's Special Boat Units)

"It is by no means enough that an officer be capable...He should be a gentleman of liberal education, refined, manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor... No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention, even if the reward be only one word of approval. Conversely, he should not be blind to a single fault in any subordinate." 
- John Paul Jones - 1775

The field of combat was a long, narrow, green-baize covered table. The weapons were words.
- Admiral C. Turner Joy