A Purple Heart just proves that were you smart enough to think of a plan, stupid enough to try it, and lucky enough to survive.

Ah, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There's only one way to shut them up - cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go and get me one!
- Joseph Stalin - As reported by De Gaulle during a long meeting.

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
- David Hackworth

If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid.

His army incomparably holds, after long years, the abiding love of its surviving veterans. Who marched with it, fought with it, took part in its victories and defeats, shared its sufferings and joys; shall [never] be deaf when its deeds are sung, [nor] mute when rung out its plaudits!
- Brig. Gen. G Moxley Sorrell, "Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer", 1905

If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly.
- David Hackworth

Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.
- Bill Mauldin, "Up Front", 1944.

Never share a fox hole with anyone braver than you.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Odd objects attract fire - never lurk behind one.

One of the best ways to keep peace is to be prepared for war.
- General George Washington