John Stuart Mill

[leeford]

"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. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

John Stuart Mill

[walker starr]

    This is the truest quote, the most meaningful that I have heard for many many years.

[Huscarl]

This is one of my all time favorite quotes, it comes to mind often when I am reading about our soldiers in the field be they past or present.  Truly eloquent