“For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.”

– Winston Churchill, 1949

“If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn’t plan your mission properly.”

-David Hackworth

“It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.”

-George Washington

“A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.”

— Herbert Hoover

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”

-Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The soldier is the army. No army is better than its soldiers. The soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country.”

– General George S. Patton Jr.