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"If we cannot secure our needs for survival on the basis of law and justice, then we must be ready to secure them with army in our hands." 
-Mihaly Karolyi, Hungarian revolutionary leader, 1918-1919

On the subject of diplomacy: "The sword has to do the best for it does not jest". 
- Karl (Charles) XII (1682-1718), Swedish warrior king. 

"This shall hence become my music" ..upon hearing the sound of gunfire during his first real battle. 
- Karl XII 

"I'll likely be married to the soldier mob for better and for worse to live and to die."
- Karl XII 

"A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living."
-John F. Kennedy

"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."
   - John F. Kennedy

"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today."
- John F. Kennedy

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty."
   - John F. Kennedy

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future."
- John F. Kennedy, Speech, Frankfurt, 25 June 1963.

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
- Robert F. Kennedy

"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. That ripple builds others. Those ripples - crossing each other from a million different centers of energy - build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and injustice."
   - Senator Robert F. Kennedy

"A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a good chance of eventually being fought." 
-George F. Keenan, The Cloud of Danger

"Everything, everything in war is barbaric....But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being." 
-Ellen Key, War, Peace and the Future

"The inevitable never happens. It is the unexpected, always."
- Lord Keynes

"Hold what you’ve got and hit them where you can"
- Admiral of the Fleet Ernest J. King, December 1941.

"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."
   - Martin Luther King, Jr

War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind ... Any scourge is preferable to it. 
- Martin Luther King Jr

The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!
-Rudyard Kipling

""It's Tommy this, and Tommy that, And chuck him out the brute,
But it's 'Savior of his Country,' When the guns begin to shoot!
For God and the soldier we adore, In time of danger, not before!
The danger passed, and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted."
   - Rudyard Kipling

When you're wounded out on Afghanistan's plains
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Then just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
And die like a good British soldier!
-Rudyard Kipling

“If your officer’s dead and the sergeants look white.
Remember it’s ruin to run from a fight;
So take open orders, lie down, and sit thight,
An’ wait for supports like a soldier.”
-Rudyard Kipling, “The Young British Soldier”

"War, if reason prevails, is waged to obtain a better peace than that which existed prior to the hostilities." 
-Bela K. Kiraly, Hungarian general and American military historian

"We have War when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants Peace."
- Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

Soldiers are men...most apt for all manner of services and best able to support and endure the infinite toils and continual hazards of war.
-Henry Knyvett

"The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums."
   - Arthur Koestler, (1905-83), Hungarian-born British novelist, essayist.

Being ready is not what matters. What matters is winning after you get there.
-Lieutenant General V.H. Krulak, USMC

"If my pillow knew my plans I wouldn't sleep on it."
 - Russian Field Marshal Kutuzov

"The most important goal of our actions is destruction of the enemy to the last limit of possibility"
- Field Marshal Prince Mikhail I. Kutuzov (1745-1813)