It is said there will be no more war. We must pretend to believe that. But when war comes, it is we who will take the first shock and buy time with our lives. It is we who keep the faith. -Lt. Collins, “The Sand Pebbles” (Richard McKenna)-

America is a living structure of human lives, of all the American lives that ever were and ever will be. -Lt. Collins, “The Sand Pebbles” (Richard McKenna)-

The problem basically is theological and involves a spiritual recrudescence and improvement of human character • Names that are a cross section of democracy • They fought together as brothers-in-arms. They died together and now they sleep side by side • To them we have a solemn obligation to ensure that their sacrifice will help to make a better, a safer, world in which to live. -National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific-

Boy, handing flowers to Girl: These are beautiful. I killed them so you could watch them decay.

A little learning is a dang’rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. -Alexander Pope-

Keep your eye on the ball, your ear to the ground, your shoulder to the wheel and your nose to the grindstone. Now try to get any work done in that position.

You’ve got to be brave to age. The aging process is a killer. -Richard Trucks-

God has not invited you to change the world by your performance, but He has invited you to change the world by your prayer. -Hunter Twitty-

Success is not final, failure is not fatal; It is the courage to continue that counts. -Winston Churchill-

I do not agree with the extremists of either the left or the right, but I think they should be allowed to speak and to publish, both because they themselves have, and ought to have, rights, and once their rights are gone, the rights of the rest of us are hardly safe. Extremists typically want to squash not only those who disagree with them diametrically, but those who disagree with them at all. -Jane Jacobs-