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"Even pirates, before they attack another ship, hoist a black flag."

"Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24."

"Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war."

"In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield."

"They died hard, those savage men-like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them."

"Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories."

"Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia."

"Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle."

"A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood."

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."

"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."

"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars."

"I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy."

"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea - massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it."

"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later."

"There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist."

"Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own."

"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together."

"First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity."

"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else."

"Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!"

"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

"Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more."

"Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character."

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

"I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind."