“If you wish to enrich days, plant flowers; If you wish to enrich years, plant trees; If you wish to enrich Eternity, plant ideals in the lives of others.”

-Truett Cathy

“To commit troops to a campaign in which they cannot be provided with adequate air support is to court disaster.”

-Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck, 1940

“There are only two kinds of people that understand Marines: Marines and the enemy. Everyone else has a second-hand opinion.”

–Gen. William Thornson, U.S. Army

“Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.”

― Virgil

“We worried for decades about WMDs – Weapons of Mass Destruction. Now it is time to worry about a new kind of WMDs – Weapons of Mass Disruption.”

-John Mariotti, author of ‘The Chinese Conspiracy’

“We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on?”

– Gen. John Vessey Jr, 1983, during the invasion of Grenada.