What do you think about these quotes?

Question

The more you sweat in training, the less you'll bleed in battle.
An Army Basic Training Saying

If you wish for peace, understand war.
Strategy (1967) by B. H. Liddell Hart

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak, or the timid.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
Jack Handey

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein

If soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.
Frederick the Great

If we don't end war, war will end us.
H. G. Wells

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/War

I see all kinds of questions about what do you think about the war..
The quotes I posted were not directly towards anyone in the military (especially the one about SM's not thinking..). The ones I posted were the ones that were more understanding to some people (SMT's) but the link is what I wanted people to see. It contains good research links/books for them look at & read before they start popping off at the mouth.

Thats why i posted this question.

only p : I thought long & hard about joining the military. It was a choice I knew I would make since I was a young girl. The military runs through my blood & genes.

freekyallweeky : What i'm asking is "What do you think of these quotes?" :)

halbrook91 :
Are you directing the "(well me)" from the cadence towards me, by chance?

Answer 1

"You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others." - Henry Rollins (hardcore/punk singer/songwriter; spoken word artist, book author - prose and poetry, radio and TV personality; occasional movie actor, comedian, and voice-over artist)

Answer 2

all these quotes point in some way or the other to WAR.

I agree to some and disagree to the others. But generally speaking all of them are true in their own sense.

But if we are to ponder on this issue, we must first understand what we ourselves are, what is war and why is war.

I have an interesting book on that subject (collected from Internet). Its called Origin of War. Its a sociology-evolutionary biology attempt to understand the all destructive nature of the living world - manifested by WAR.

Its a long discussion. If you want to share more, feel free to mail me.

Have fun and enjoy every moment that you feel you're not into a war of some kind.

Answer 3

I am not sure what question your asking? I think those are some very accurate quotes. They make sense. The quotes I like best of those are the one about world war III and the one about if soldiers were to begin to think they would not remain in the Army. It is soooooooo true! My husband just got out of the Army.

Answer 4

Taken in their historical context, they have some bit of truth, but none is written in stone, though Hart's translation of the old Roman dictum comes close. Friedrich's soldiers, for instance, were quite unlike those of the twentieth century, much less the 21st.

Answer 5

"My country right or wrong, but right or wrong my country." Stephen Decatur, War of 1812

Joker: "How can you kill women and children?"
Crew Cheif: "You just don't lead them as far, ain't war hell?"
Full Metal Jacket

"I hear the choppers comin'. Their flyin over head. They've come to get the wounded, they've come to get the dead. You look to your buddy, he's shot in the head. The medic said he'd be alright, but you know damn well he's dead. Deep in the battlefield coverd in blood. Lies an Airborne Ranger dyin in the mud. He fought to keep his country free. He was a soldier just like you and me. (well me)" Army Cadence "Airborne Ranger"

No to you directly, just not everyone is a soldier, and I was...if you are great...=)~ HOOAH!

Answer 6

Some are valid. I disagree with the quote about soldiers not thinking. Most soldiers have thought very hard and long about the choice they made to protect our nation.

Answer 7

"We are not fighting hostile armies, but a hostile people.....We cannot change the hearts of those people of the south, but we can make war so terrible....[and] make them so sick of war that generations would pass away before they would again appeal to it."
Gen. WT Sherman

Answer 8

"Bomb them back to the Stone Age."

- Curtis E. LeMay, Gen. USAF; Referring to the North Koreans during the Korean War.

Answer 9

good stuff


thanks for the link

Answer 10

"Uhh, it's hard work" - Dubya