“The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.”

—Pierre de Coubertin, father of the modern Olympic Games

“The more people as a whole are brought to realize the truth about the war–pleasant and unpleasant–the better are they place to accept its risks, endure its consequences, and turn to their advantage the facts which truth reveals.”

-J.F.C. Fuller

“Victory by Dawn”

-Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 242 (VMFA-242) Motto

“He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.”

-Seneca the Younger

“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.”

-Colin Powell

“Knowledge is power.”

-Sir Francis Bacon