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"It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle." - Norman Schwarzkopf (1934 - ____) US military leader

"'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife." - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) English dramatist, poet

"It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U. S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the senate." - George McGovern (1922 - ____) US senator

"We're all scared. You hid in that ditch because you think there's still hope. The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. And the sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier's supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it." - Band of Brothers, Episode 3: Carentan

"A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. All you have to do is hold your first dying soldier in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that his life is flowing out and you can't do anything about it. Then you understand the horror of war. Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still, there are things worth fighting for." - Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

"They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom." - Mel Gibson (1956 - ____) US actor, director, cartoon voicist
In "Bravehart" as the Scottish rebel warrior William Wallace to his troops before a battle.

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." - Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) English statesman, author

"The first rule of holes: when you're in one, stop digging." -
Molly Ivins (1942 - 2007) US political columnist, author

"A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows." - O. Henry (1862 - 1910) US short-story writer, journalist

"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." - John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848) US president (6th)

"Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all." - Bernard Levin (1928 - ____) British journalist, critic

"Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote." - George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958) US editor, critic

"Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ." - Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) Scottish essayist, historian

"Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody." - Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960) US journalist

"Did you ever think what the word 'vote' means? To me it means: 'Voice of Taxpayers Everywhere.'" - Martin Buxbaum

"Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors." - George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) English dramatist, critic

"If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates." - Jay Leno (1950 - ____) US comedian, talk show host

"If he became convinced tomorrow that coming out for cannibalism would get him the votes he so sorely needs, he would begin fattening a missionary on the White House backyard come Wednesday." - H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) US editor, satirist

"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." - 
Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) English statesman, author

"If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem." -  Jiddu Krishnamurti: (1895-1986) Indian philosopher