From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
(General Douglas MacArthur)

I shall return.
(General Douglas MacArthur)

Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
(General Douglas MacArthur)

War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
(Niccolo Machiavelli)

The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
(John Stuart Mill)

The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
(P. J. O'Rourke)

Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.
(P. J. O'Rourke)

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
(General George Patton)

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
(George Santayana)

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
(George Bernard Shaw)