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COMSUBBBS
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Location: Alexandria, Virginia | Subject: Loved this one
"War is an ugly thing,but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse, A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight; nothing that he cares about more than his own personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so, by the exertions of better men than himself." |
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Master and Commander
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Location: Oxnard, CA | Subject: RE: Loved this one
"Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men." George S. Patton
"Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security." Norman Vincent Peale |
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Master and Commander
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Location: Port Ludlow, WA (the Olympic Penninsula) | Subject: RE: Loved this one
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile |
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Great Sage of the Sea
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Location: Inyokern, Ca. | Subject: RE: Loved this one
dex armstrong - 2008-04-12 2:55 PM
"War is an ugly thing,but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse, A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight; nothing that he cares about more than his own personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so, by the exertions of better men than himself."
John Stewart Mill. I had it posted next to my desk working for NAVAIR for over 25 years. Great statement.
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COMSUBBBS
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Location: Alexandria, Virginia | Subject: RE: Loved this one
BB, Thanks ever so much. I copied the quote from a notecard tacked to a bulletin board in the amputee rehabilitation ward at Walter Reed at some point during the Southeast Asian War in the late sixties. It had no attribution...no author given. Thanks to you, I now have the author. That has always been important to me. A man, good or bad should be judged on his actual statements and the composition of his writing. I have carried that statement in my wallet for years, having renewed it as the paper it was written on deteriorated and became unreadable...I must have done that ten or twelve times over the years. Ten minutes ago, I took it out, unfolded it and wrote JOHN STUART MILL....It now contains, THANKS TO YOU...the origin of its' birth. I put the refolded paper back in my wallet and noticed the wallet is now quite a bit heavier. Seriously, it feels good to know who originally penned it. Thanks again...DEX |
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COMSUBBBS
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Location: Alexandria, Virginia | Subject: RE: Loved this one
Chief Clear, HENRY IV...Speech before Battle of Agincourt (sp?)...reread by Winston Churchill during Invasion of Europe June 6th 1944....My absolute all time favorite. "Funny thing about we few...We keep getting fewer." Richard Burton...film THE LONGEST DAY. As a kid I hated reading Shakespeare, like the Bible, the antiquated phrases didn't make sense to me. That changed when I read both as an adult...Love the Bard. DEX |
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Master and Commander
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Location: Tucson AZ | Subject: RE: Loved this one
dex armstrong - 2008-04-13 7:48
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... As a kid I hated reading Shakespeare, like the Bible, the antiquated phrases didn't make sense to me. That changed when I read both as an adult...Love the Bard. DEX
I guess it takes a bard to know a bard, Dex. If the Silent Service era of middle of the 20th century has a bard, you are he!
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