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Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
Ferdinand Foch
Value
Military
Airplane
Toys
Interesting
I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.
George Armstrong Custer
Me
You
Enemy
Humiliation
Meet
Soldier
Dangers
Seeing
Share
Regiment
Spare
Appeal
March
When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.
George B. McClellan
Sad
War
Army
Honor
Will
Our
Potomac
Higher
Feel
Over
Return
Proud
Than
Ask
Homes
Consciousness
Belonged
The moment for action has arrived, and I know that I can trust in you to save our country.
George B. McClellan
You
Trust
Country
Action
Our
Know
Arrived
Moment
Save
The sword is very handsome. I am too old and infirm, as you see, to ever use a sword again, but I am glad that my old mother state has not entirely forgotten me.
George Rogers Clark
Me
You
Mother
Old
Too
State
See
Entirely
Glad
Am
Very
Handsome
Forgotten
Again
Use
Ever
Sword
All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.
George S. Patton
Must
Prima
Very
Successful
Treated
I am determined to offer an apology with my death.
Hideki Tojo
Death
Determined
Am
Offer
Apology
England expects that every man will do his duty.
Horatio Nelson
Man
Will
Duty
Every
His
Expects
England
Every Man
I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!
Horatio Nelson
Sometimes
Signal
Eye
See
Only
Blind
Really
Right
When I follow my own head, I am, in general, much more correct in my judgment than following the opinion of others.
Horatio Nelson
Judgment
Own
Others
Correct
Follow
Following
General
My Own
More
Head
Opinion
Am
Than
Much
Even though there wasn't much damage, it's a disgrace that the skies over the imperial capital should have been defiled without a single enemy plane being shot down. It provides a regrettably graphic illustration of the saying that a bungling attack is better than the most skillful defense.
Isoroku Yamamoto
Saying
Enemy
Better
Single
Down
Illustration
Defense
Though
Attack
Imperial
Over
Most
Without
Been
Provides
Than
Disgrace
Being
Plane
Capital
Skies
Much
Shot
Should
Skillful
Graphic
Even
Damage
Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. We would have to march into Washington and sign the treaty in the White House.
Isoroku Yamamoto
Philippines
White
White House
Enough
Once
States
Francisco
Sign
Out
Would
Hawaii
Take
Between
House
Nor
Break
San
San Francisco
Japan
Should
Even
Washington
United
United States
March
Treaty
Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America.
Isoroku Yamamoto
Seen
Power
National
Factories
Detroit
Knows
Texas
America
Auto
Lacks
Oil
Anyone
Fields
Race
Japan
Who
Naval
Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.
John A. Logan
Time
People
Free
Neglect
Vandalism
Cost
Generations
Coming
Testify
Forgotten
Republic
Avarice
Present
Every American soldier wants as much public support as he can possibly have. That's the soldiers on duty in Iraq, and that's me, as well. We fight better knowing that our people back home support us, back us, and understand what we're doing. It's hugely important.
John Abizaid
Home
Me
Patriotism
Fight
People
Better
Important
Duty
Every
Back
Our
Soldier
Soldiers
Our People
Possibly
He
Support
Knowing
Well
Understand
Doing
Iraq
Hugely
American
Wants
Public
Us
Much
Public Support
Every American
The situation of America is new in the annals of mankind; her affairs cry haste, and speed must answer them.
John Paul Jones
Situation
Speed
Haste
Must
New
Cry
Answer
Affairs
America
Them
Mankind
Her
The common class of mankind are actuated by no nobler principle than that of self-interest; this and this alone determines all adventurers in privateers: the owners, as well as those whom they employ.
John Paul Jones
Alone
Class
Those
Determines
Adventurers
Employ
Well
Principle
Self-Interest
Than
Owners
Common
Mankind
Whom
One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
John W. Foster
Genius
Fire
Power
Own
Characteristics
Strongest
Lighting
I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.
Joshua Chamberlain
You
Writing
Circumstances
Pretend
Write
Know
Am
Much
Letter
Far too many times over the next 12 to 15 years, it was brought to my attention that people who followed my exercise guidelines exactly but ignored their diet, their weight and their cigarette smoking had heart attacks at age 55.
Kenneth H. Cooper
Heart
Age
People
Smoking
Too
Cigarette
Guidelines
Exactly
Followed
Brought
Attacks
Had
Weight
Attention
Over
Exercise
Years
Times
Diet
Far
Next
Ignored
Who
Many
It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability.
Lord Mountbatten
Best
Father
Mind
Job
Entered
Ability
Never
Nor
Than
Ever
If I died on the battlefield, then that was the way it was supposed to be.
Marcus Luttrell
Way
Battlefield
Supposed
Died
Then
If we want the most effective fighting force, we need to pick the most qualified capable man for the job, even if it's a woman.
Martha McSally
Man
Woman
Job
Fighting
Pick
Most
Qualified
Force
Effective
Want
Capable
Even
Need
If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.
Martin Delany
Affection
Too
Meet
Everyone
Our
Favorite
Would
Bestow
Cat
Same
Treated
I've always operated so far outside my lane, I'm not sure what lane is mine anymore.
Michael T. Flynn
Mine
Outside
Operated
Sure
Always
Anymore
Far
Lane
We're in a global war, facing an enemy alliance that runs from Pyongyang, North Korea, to Havana, Cuba, and Caracas, Venezuela.
Michael T. Flynn
War
Enemy
Runs
Havana
Facing
Alliance
Global
Venezuela
Global War
Cuba
Korea
North
North Korea
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