Great Military Speeches/Quotes

[Tim Nice But Dim]

I thought that would be interesting to see what people thought the greatest military speeches/messages were.

These are mine…

Lt. Col Tim Collins's Speech
We go to liberate, not to conquer.
We will not fly our flags in their country
We are entering Iraq to free a people and the only flag which will be flown in that ancient land is their own.
Show respect for them.
There are some who are alive at this moment who will not be alive shortly.
Those who do not wish to go on that journey, we will not send.
As for the others, I expect you to rock their world.
Wipe them out if that is what they choose.
But if you are ferocious in battle remember to be magnanimous in victory.
Iraq is steeped in history.
It is the site of the Garden of Eden, of the Great Flood and the birthplace of Abraham.
Tread lightly there.
You will see things that no man could pay to see
-- and you will have to go a long way to find a more decent, generous and upright people than the Iraqis.
You will be embarrassed by their hospitality even though they have nothing.
Don't treat them as refugees for they are in their own country.
Their children will be poor, in years to come they will know that the light of liberation in their lives was brought by you.
If there are casualties of war then remember that when they woke up and got dressed in the morning they did not plan to die this day.
Allow them dignity in death.
Bury them properly and mark their graves.
It is my foremost intention to bring every single one of you out alive.
But there may be people among us who will not see the end of this campaign.
We will put them in their sleeping bags and send them back.
There will be no time for sorrow.
The enemy should be in no doubt that we are his nemesis and that we are bringing about his rightful destruction.
There are many regional commanders who have stains on their souls and they are stoking the fires of hell for Saddam.
He and his forces will be destroyed by this coalition for what they have done.
As they die they will know their deeds have brought them to this place. Show them no pity.
It is a big step to take another human life.
It is not to be done lightly.
I know of men who have taken life needlessly in other conflicts.
I can assure you they live with the mark of Cain upon them. If someone surrenders to you then remember they have that right in international law and ensure that one day they go home to their family.
The ones who wish to fight, well, we aim to please.
If you harm the regiment or its history by over-enthusiasm in killing or in cowardice, know it is your family who will suffer.
You will be shunned unless your conduct is of the highest -- for your deeds will follow you down through history.
We will bring shame on neither our uniform or our nation.
(On Saddam's chemical and biological weapons.)
It is not a question of if, it's a question of when.
We know he has already devolved the decision to lower commanders, and that means he has already taken the decision himself.
If we survive the first strike we will survive the attack.
As for ourselves, let's bring everyone home and leave Iraq a better place for us having been there.
Our business now is north.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower (Ike) D-Day Message

http://www.ku.edu/heritage/abilene/graphics/ikesmessage.jpg

Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC
They are in front of us, behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an
enemy that outnumbers us 29:1. They can't get away from us now!
Heraclitus
Out of every 100 men, ten shouldn't even be there,
Eighty are just targets,
Nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle.
Ah, but the one,
One is a warrior,
And he will bring the others back.

[RATKO]

Major Dragutin Gavrilovic Belgrade defence 1915
"At three o'clock sharp, the enemy must be crushed by your mighty charge, torn to pieces by your grenades and bayonets. The honour of Belgrade must be spotless. Soldiers, heroes, The Supreme Command has erased our names from its roll. Our regiment is sacrificed for our King and Fatherland. You don't have to worry anymore about your lives that no longer exist. So forward, to glory! Long live the King! Long live Belgrade!"

[Frank Discussion]

"I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I inspired the Nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar"
- Sir Winston Churchill, Speech Nov. 1954.

"The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its
warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by
fools."
-Thucydides

"Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking"
- Oliver Cromwell

[Uhlan]

"Kill! Kill! In the German race there is nothing but evil; not one among the living, not one among the yet unborn but is evil! Follow the precepts of Comrade Stalin. Stamp out the fascist beast once and for all in its lair! Use force and break the racial pride of these German women. Take them as your lawful booty. Kill! As you storm onward, kill, you gallant soldiers of the Red Army."

Chief of the Soviet propaganda commissars Ilya Ehrenburg 1945.

[Para]

The best and most remembered speeches seem to be the short hard hitting ones. The people that had this down to a fine art was Lincoln and Churchill, these men seemed to be able to capture the mood of the people in very few words that got right to point, they did not waste words by trying to sound important or baffling people by using long words just show how clever they where. With passing of the years the speeches that these people made are still being repeated time and time again.

[James]

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

-Herbert Hoover

[CountZero]

The best and most remembered speeches seem to be the short hard hitting ones. The people that had this down to a fine art was Lincoln and Churchill, these men seemed to be able to capture the mood of the people in very few words that got right to point, they did not waste words by trying to sound important or baffling people by using long words just show how clever they where. With passing of the years the speeches that these people made are still being repeated time and time again.

and also the roman commanders eg Ceasar and co.

[2RHPZ]

“One good spy is worth 10,000 soldiers.”

Sun Tzu, ancient Chinese military strategist

[Bombtrack]

Does anyone have a transcript of Churchill's speech about the expected Nazi invasion? "We will fight them on the beaches.."

[James]

Does anyone have a transcript of Churchill's speech about the expected Nazi invasion? "We will fight them on the beaches.."

here's a piece of it...

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.


The speech can be found can be found here:

http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=393

[bishop1]

"Eat a good breakfast men, for we'll all be sharing dinner in hell"
King Leoniadas-Themopalyea

Hearing the Persian archers were so numerous that their volleys darkend the sun, the Spartan Dienkes replied "Good, we shall fight them in the shade"

"Let them hate us as long as the fear us" Caligula

3 of my favs

[DANJANOU]

"Eat a good breakfast men, for we'll all be sharing dinner in hell"
King Leoniadas-Themopalyea

Hearing the Persian archers were so numerous that their volleys darkend the sun, the Spartan Dienkes replied "Good, we shall fight them in the shade"

Old Leoniadas was full of memorable one’s that day. The Perisans pointing out their vast superiority in numbers suggested that the Greeks "Put down your weapons and surrender."

Leonidas replied, "Molon Labe." Come and take them.

[bishop1]

Yeah, and Herodotus says Diences as well had many more good quotes, yet they werent recorded.

[nognig]

"Let us not mourn for the men who have died fighting, but rather let us be glad that such heroes have lived.”

George S. Patton

[stateofequilibrium]

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate–we can not consecrate–we can not hallow–this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us–that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion–that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain–that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom–and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

[thedragonandhistail]

1. You are not superman!!
2. If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid.
3. Don`t look suspicious, it draws fire. (This is why aircraft carriers are called , "Bomb Magnets".
4. When in doubt, empty your magazine.
5. Never share a foxhole with anyone braver that you are.
6. Never forget that your weapon was made by the lowest bidder.
7. If your attack is going really well it's an ambush.
8. No plan survives the first contact intact.
9. All five second fusses burn down in three seconds.
10. Try to look unimportant, the enemy may be low on ammo.
11. If you are foward in your position the artillery will fall short.
12. The enemy diversion you are ignoring is the main attack.
13. The important things are always simple.
14. The simpe things are always hard.
15. The easy way is always mined.
16. If you are short on everything, except the enemy, you are in combat.
17. When you have secured an area don`t foreget to tell the enemy.
18. Incoming fire has the right away.
19. Friendly fire...isn't.
20. If the enemy is in range....SO ARE YOU!!!!
21. No combat ready unit has ever passed inspection.
22. Beer math is: 2 beers times 37 men = 49 cases.
23. Body count math is: two guerillas plus one portable plus two pigs = 37 enemies killed in action.
24. Things that must be together to work, can be shipped together.
25. Radio's will fail as soon as you need fire support desperately.
26. Anything you do can get you shot-including doing nothing.
27. Tracers work both ways.
28. The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.
29. Make it tough for the enemy to get in and you will not be able to get out.
30. If you take more than your fair share of objectives, you will have more than your fair share of objectives to take.
31. When both side are convinced they are about to loose they both are right!

[2RHPZ]

QUOTES & CITES:
BY NAME:
Bonaparte - Napoleon
Churchill - Winston Spencer
Clausewitz - Carl von
Douhet - Giulio
Einstein - Albert
Foch - Ferdinand
Guderian - Heinz
Jomini - Antoine-Henri de
Lidell-Hart - Basil H.
MacArthur - Douglas
Machiavelli - Niccolo (di Bernardo)
Mao Tse Tung
Moltke - Helmuth von
Montgomery - Bernard L.
Nietzsche - Friedrich
Patton - George S.
Rommel - Erwin
Shakespeare - William
Sherman - William T.
Sun Tzu


Website (http://www.bellum.nu/literature.html)

[VanZorich]

Warning ! Explicit language !

Translation (by me) is amaterish and somewhat shortened (by me) and does not in no account do justice to original. Some frases and curse-words are extremly hard to translate.


6 May, 1940 - mobilisation of old YU army in Slovenija - Brezovica.

Expecting Italian attack.

Captain Luka Đurasković:

....Our Italian neighbours are whores. They are, may dog **** ther mothers, afraid of war,
yet they wonna get land without bloodshed.
They say, ****ers, they have right on Dalmacija.
Yes, the'll get it, but they'll get dick !
Isn't it so ?
And don't we have right on Triest, Istria and others our lands ?
Well, afcourse we have!
They are pretending to be friends now (Italians), but tommorow they would attack us, bitches.
Is that clear ?
Let dog **** their mothers, let them come, we'll send them (back)
to their mothers ****s.

Secondly: we South Slavs were and still are best soldiers of Europe.
Isn't it so ?
Well, afcourse it is, and it shoud be so.
Mussolini has done a lot for Italy.
He gave a lot to Italians, but he could never make them brave;
even if he would give them dick, he could not give them brave hart of hero.
Isn't it so ?
Is that clear ?
Well, other thing Italians clame is: "We have everything motorised.
Our machineguns are FIAT, our tanks are FIAT, our planes are FIAT and whatnot"...their mothers ****!
We know that, but their hearts are also FIAT, may St.Jerome on the sky **** them.
But they don't know us,... their mothers ****!
Isn't it so ?
Well afcourse it is so, and it should be.

Another thing: they want to curate us, to garant our borders, ..their mothers ****s.
Italians, and who knows which dicks else: Germans, English, French, Japanese, Chinese and others,
even League of Nations.
What do we care about their garanties,...their mothers ****s!
We know what garanties are.
Dick and garanties !
Let dog **** their garanties and whorish mothers !
Isn't it so ?!

Heare here, and what are you laughing about ?!
You all know there are others who would like our land, their mothers ****s!
Those gipsy bitches up there (Hungarians) are claming Srem, Banat and Baranja.
Allright then, their Tatarian mothers ****s, why dont they come and take half of Slovenija
and Croatia, **** their Counts; may dog **** their mothers; them and Horti and Teleki and Countes Marica!

.....Allright now,...mothers ****, but what is ours ?
What the pretty Dick are we doing here and what are we defending if nothing is ours ?
Their mothers ****s ! Why are we paying so much tax if it isn't ours ?
Isn't it so ?
No one will get nothing from us !
We'll give them hard dick and it will be hard for years to come.
Let them come, if they are brave heroes, and we'll shove them back into their mothers ****s,
across Drina and Sava river, even if we all perish.
Isn't it so ?
Well, afcourse it is, 'cose it can't and it shouldn't be diferent
Afcourse!
...


original:

Maja meseca 1940. godine, zbog mogućnosti napada Italije,
izvršena je delimična mobilizacija jugoslovenske vojske, sa
koncentracijom trupa u Sloveniji. Manevrima i smotri borbene
gotovosti prisustvovali su i strani vojni predstavnici i
novinari. Prilikom obilaska 40. pešadijskog puka u Brezovici 26.
maja, stenografisan je govor postrojenim vojnicima komandira 1.
čete, kapetana Luke Đuraskovića:

“Slušaj 'vamo! Mi živimo u ozbiljno doba, i svaki od vas znade zašto ste tu. Svi ste skoro stariji i ženjeni ljudi, vi čitate novine, je 1' tako. I ako nam pruže rat, jebo ga otac, mi ćemo ga prihvatiti i ratovati. U tom slučaju, jebo mu pas mater, morali bi mi tako da primimo borbu, pa makar svi izginuli. To bi bilo od nas časno, je 1' tako!

Naši susedi Talijani, e to su kurve jedne. Oni, jebo im pas
mater, boje se ratovanja a hoće da dobiju zemlju bez krvi. Oni,
fukare jedne, kažu da imaju pravo na Dalmaciju. Jeste,
dobiće, ali kurac. Je 1' tako? A zar mi nemamo pravo na Trst, Istru
i druge naše krajeve!? Pa dabome da imamo! Sada se prave
prijatelji, a sutra napali bi nas, kurve jedne. Je 1' vam to
jasno!? Jebo im pas mater, samo neka dođu, poslaćemo ih u pizdu
materinu!

Drugo: mi južni Sloveni, bili smo i jesmo najbolji
vojnici Evrope. Je 1'tako? Dabome da je tako, i tako treba da
bude! Musolini je dosta učinio za Italiju. On je mnogo dao
Italijanima, ali ih nikad neće učiniti hrabrima; makar im kurac
dao neće moći da im da srce junačko. Je 1' tako!? Je 1' vam jasno?
E, drugo, kažu Talijani, oni vele, "kod nas je sve motorizovano.
Naši su mitraljezi FIAT, naši su tenkovi FIAT, naši su avioni
FIAT, i šta ja sve znam... u pičku materinu. Znamo mi to, ali je
u njih i srce FIAT, jebo ih sveti Jeronim na nebu. Samo, ima
jedno: oni nas ne znaju, pička im materina! Je 1' tako? Dabome,
baš tako, i tako treba da bude.

Drugo: hoće da nam budu kuratori, da garantuju naše granice, pizda im materina. Talijani, i ko zna koji kurci - Nemci, Englezi, Francuzi, Japanci, Kinezi i drugi, pa čak i Društvo naroda. A šta se nas tiču njihove garancije, pizda im materina! Znamo mi šta su to garancije. Kurac garancije! Jebo im pas mater garancijsku i kurvarsku.

Drugo: Svi vi znate da se naša vojska najbolje hrani. Je 1' tako? E, kad je tako, onda hrana treba da bude još sto puta bolja. Imamo kuvare, jebo im pas mater, i još ne valjaju. Pa dobro, gde su ti kuvari, jebo im pas mater svima od reda!? Dežurni, deder zovni mi kuvare, pizda im materina...!............... Pa, dobro kuvari, jebo vas sveti Jeronim na nebu, poslaću vas sve da terate mitraljeze u brda, u pizdu materinu, pa da vidimo da li će hrana biti bolja! Jebo vam pas mater kuvarsku! Je 1'tako!?”

(Kuvar Trobec se javlja: "Alo gospodine kapetane, iz griza se ne more...")

“Kuš! Ništa te nisam pit'o! Marš u pizdu materinu, jebo ti pas mater kuvarsku! Kad te raspizdim pretvoriću te odma' u mitraljez! Drugo: Gde je onaj koga su ubile gaće?...... A, tu je... E, baš tebe ću poslati na Talijane, jebo te mitropolit! I ti si mi kurčev vojnik! Ubile ga gaće...

Slušaj 'vamo i šta se smeješ! Svi vi znate da ima i drugih kojima
se hoće naša zemlja, pizda im materina! Šta gore one ciganske
kurve kažu da im pripada Srem, Banat i Baranja. Pa dobro, pizda im
materina tatarska, što ne dođu da uzmu pola Slovenije i Hrvatske,
jebali ih njihovi grofovi; jebo im pas mater njima i Hortiju i
Telekiju i grofici Marici!

Drugo: Je 1' idete vi onako, preko noći, malo u Domžale? A? Znam ja vas dobro. Sve ja znam, je 1' tako? A vidite, to ne sme tako da bude. U nas postoji preki sud, pa tu nema više šale. Odma' te streljaju, jebo te faraon! Da li vi mislite tako? Evo - ide ti komandir negde tamo u pizdu materinu, vodnici šta ja znam gde, jebo ih Bog i onako ništa ne valjaju, podnarednici sede u kafani, a vi - u Domžale. Pa sad lepo dođu Talijani, pizda im materina! Kako bi sve to izgledalo? I kako bi nas fino udesili... Majku im zicarošku! Pa to ne sme da bude, je 1' vam jasno!? Ne može to tako kod nas da bude, kako je bilo kod Čeha. A, jok! Eto, i to su kurve koje se uopšte ne bore nego samo polažu oružje, kukavice jebo im pas mater i njima! Pa eto ovi Poljaci, jebo ih sveti Jeronim, borili se borili... a njihova
gospoda ministri - tup u avione, beže kurve avionima pravo u
Pariz. Ništa manje, u pizdu materinu, da tamo tobože vladaju; ali
samo kome, pička im majčina! U nas ne sme da bude tako, naravno.

Drugo: Nije to sve što sam vam kazao. Ama svi vi tu znate,
pametni ste ljudi. Išli ste po svetu i sigurno ste videli lepu
varoš Temišvar? E vidite, kažu Rumuni jebo ih Bog otac, "To je
naše!". Pa dobro sad, pička mu materina, šta je onda naše!? Za
koji smo krasni kurac mi onda ovde i šta mi da branimo, kad ništa nije naše!? Pizda im materina! Pa šta mi plaćamo toliki porez, kad je
tuđe!? Je 1' tako? Onda od nas neće dobiti niko ništa! Daćemo im
tvrd kurac, i to tvrd za mnogo godina. Neka dođu, ako su junaci, a
mi ćemo s njima pravo u pizdu materinu, preko Drave i Save, pa makar svi izginuli! Je 1' tako!? E, pa, dabome da jeste, jer drukčije
ne može i ne sme da bude! Naravno! A sad vodniče, daj ljudima
voljno!”

[Arhiv SANU, A-36-119-263] Kapetan Luka Đurasković poginuo je u
toku II svetskog rata.

[Lokos]

I'm going to translate it just a bit better for you:

"Listen here! We live in serious times, and you all know why you're here. Almost all of you are married men, who read the papers, isn't that so? And if they offer us war, father **** 'em, we will accept and go to war! In that case, may dogs **** their mothers, we will have to go into combat, even if we all perish. That is the honorable thing to do, isn't that so?

Our neighbors, the Italians, they're whores. They, may dogs **** their mothers, are afraid of war and want to gain land without bloodshed. Those ****ers claim they have a right to Dalmatia. Like **** they'll get it. Isn't that so?! Don't we have a right to Trieste, Istria and our other regions? Of course we have! Today, they pretend to be our friends - while they'd attack us tomorrow, the whores. Is that clear to you?! May dogs **** their mothers, let them come, we'll send them back to their mothers' ****s, where they belong.

Secondly: We south Slavs, we are the best solders in Europe. Isn't that so? Of course it is so; and that is the way it should be! Mussolini has done a lot for Italy. He has given a lot to the Italians, but he'll never make them brave; give them a dick he might, but they'll never have the heart of heroes. Isn't that so? Is it clear to you?! Next, the Italians say 'With us everything is motorized. Our machine guns are FIAT, our tanks are FIAT, our planes are FIAT, whatever... in their mothers' ****s. We know all that, but we also know that their hearts are FIAT too, may St. Jerome up in the heavens **** them! But, listen here, those mother****ers don't know US! Isn't that so? Of course it is so; and that's the way it should be.

Thirdly: They want to be our 'friends', to guarantee our borders, the mother****ers... Italians, that is, and who knows what other dickheads - the Germans, the English, the French, the Japanese, the Chinese and others, maybe even the League of Nations. But why should we be concerned with their guarantees, the mother****ers? We know what those 'guarantees' mean. **** their guarantees! May dogs **** their guarantee-ing, whorish mothers!

Fourthly: You all know that our army is the best fed out there. Isn't that so? Well, if it is so, our food needs to be a hundred times better. We have cooks, may dogs **** their mothers, but they're no good! Alright, well, where are these cooks, may dogs **** all your mothers in a row?! Orderly, call over those cooks, the mother****ers. Cooks, may St. Jerome in the heavens **** you, I'll send you all to tow machineguns up hills, up your mothers' ****s, and then we'll see if the food gets better! May dogs **** your cooking mothers! Right?!

(A cook tries to reply meekly, before the Cptn cuts him off)

Shut up! I didn't ask you a damn thing! Go up your mother's ****, and may dogs **** her cook ass! When I **** you up, I'll transform you into a mother****ing machinegun.

Next: Where is that mother****er whose underwear is too tight? Oh, there he is. Oh, you I'm definitely sending against the 'Talians, may the Mitropolit **** you! A *reaaall* ****ing soldier... Underwear too tight...

Listen here, and what the **** are you laughing about? All of you know there are others out there who want our land, the mother****ers! Up there those Gypsy whores lay claim to Srem, Banat and Baranja. Well fine - those Tatar mother****ers - why don't they come and take half of Croatia and Slovenia, may their Counts **** 'em - may dogs **** their mothers and the mothers of Horti and Teleki and Countess Marica!

Next: Do you sneak sometimes, at night, into Domzale? Eh? I know you too well. I know everything, right?! You see, you can't do that. We have special courts for that sort of thing now; there's no more joking around. They'll execute you right away, may the pharaoh **** you! Did you ever think about that? There - your commander is going off somewhere, who the **** knows where, the lieutenants nowhere to be found - may God **** them, they're good for nothing anyway - the sergeants are sitting in bars and you... you go to Domzale. So now the Italians come prancing along, the mother****ers. How would it all look then? And how finely they'd **** us up. The mother****ers! That cannot be, understood?! We cannot go the way of the Czechs, understand?! Like hell!

They're whores too, who don't fight but just lay down their arms, the cowardly mother****ers! At least the Poles, may St. Jerome up in heaven **** 'em, they fought and fought... While their gentry and their ministers got on planes and flew straight to Paris! They fly over there so that they can continue 'ruling' - but over who are those mother****ers ruling?! For us things must not be that way, of course.

Next: That's not all that I've said. You all know this, you're smart people. You've seen the world, and probably know the beautiful Temisvar. You see, the Romanians say, may God **** 'em, 'That's ours!' Well, alright then, what the mother**** is ours then? Why in the **** are we here, defending this land, when nothing is ours?! The mother****ers! Why do we pay our God-damned taxes, when nothing here belongs to us?! Right?! Then they're getting nothing from us, from this point on! We'll give them our hard dicks, dicks that stay hard for many a year, that's what we'll give them! Let them come, the heroes they are, and we'll head off with them right up their mothers' ****s, across the Drave and the Save, even if we all die! Right?! Damned straight it is, because otherwise it should not and it cannot be! Of course!

And now, soldier, give to the people willingly!"

Lokos

[Lokos]

Looking over that text, and noting that the way the guy speaks is considered very everyday and normal, I find that we are a very vulgar people.

Lokos

[VanZorich]

Hvala, Lokos.
:P

[Sayeret]

Not a military quote but rather a police quote:

I like the edge, the challenge. I get a high off it. You're out there in the concrete jungle or the cornfield jungle. You know the guy you're up against has no regard for authority or society. He doesn't care about you. But he knows he's got to go and you've got to get him.

I like the element of danger. It makes me feel alive. But I don't expose myself to danger blatantly. I'm not going to give anybody the opportunity to get even just a little bit of me if I can help it. Going up against danger and coming out whole because I'm prepared tactically, that's what the rush comes from.

My dad used to say there are no new frontiers...they've all been explored. But in our society, there's still one: the street. It's the only place you can be that has any edge to it....

-Sgt. Dean Ray, Savannah, Georgia, survivor of a confrontation with a mentally deranged suspect who had just torn open a man's chest with a razor.

[DANJANOU]

I know it’s from a movie but it’s still good:

“Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the marines. You have that luxury.

You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And that my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall.

We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline.

I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post.

Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.”

Jack Nicholson as Colonel Nathan Jessup in A Few Good Men