Military Academies

      For those unfamiliar with America's military academies, a couple points.  There are three main military academies, funded in whole by our government.  While there are other, perhaps even older state based institutions, the three most commonly  recognized training ground for America's warriors are Annapolis, West Point, and Colorado Springs.  The three, in order, hold the Naval Academy, Army (military) Academy, and the Air Force Academy.  Each contains a student body of about 4000 (in time of peace...this may change), and the students, upon graduation receive a bachelors degree and commission as an officer in the US military.   Below are the three links to the academies.  As time allows, we'll highlight other resources from these sites. 

US Naval Academy:  www.USNA.edu

US Military Academy: www.USMA.edu

US Air Force Academy: www.USAFA.af.mil

Warrior Quotes

QUOTATIONS

"The Air Force's real strength lies in its people. The mission is not done by machines, it is done by people. The best weapons are of little value without trained and motivated people to operate and support them. Those of us in leadership positions have a special responsibility to develop and support the high quality people who will lead the Air Force in the 21st century."
--Gen Charles Gabriel    

If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself.
--General George S. Patton, Jr.

     If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and
     wear the clothes you tell them to wear, how are you going to get them to
     die for their country?
--General George S. Patton, Jr.  

Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country.
--John F. Kennedy  

On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seed that on other 
days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
--General Douglas MacArthur   

It is probable that future war will be conducted by a
     special class, the Air Force, as it was by the armored knights of the Middle Ages.

You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.
--Sir Winston Churchill

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
--William Penn  

There is no limit to the good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
--General George C. Marshall

A leader is aman who had the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.
--Harry S. Truman   

I don't mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors.
--Colonel Curtis LeMay

There is no type of human endeavor where it is so important that the leader understands all phases of his job as that of the profession of arms.
--Major General James C. Fry

Be an example to your men, in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don't in your endurance of fatigue and privation. always be tactful and well-mannered and teach your subordinates to do the same. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to hide.
--Field Marshall Erwin Rommel

The issue is not war and peace, rather, how best to preserve our freedom.
--General Russell E. Dougherty

In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
--General of the Army Douglas MacArthur

Never do an enemy a small injury.
--Machiavelli

In War: Resolution
In Defeat: Defiance
In Victory: Magnanimity
In Peace: Good Will
--Winston Churchill

In the moment of action remember the value of silence and order.
--Phormio of Athens

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste death but once.
--Shakespeare: Julius Caesar     

We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
--Benjamin Franklin   

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
--Nathan Hale

Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
 --Edith Cavell

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who fumes at his quandaries becomes their victim.
--David Seabury

Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue, to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.
--Socrates

The greatest mistake you can make in this life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
--Elbert Hubbard

I must respect the opinions of others even if I disgree with them.
--Herbert Lehman

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.
--Henry van Dyke

Ten good soldiers, wisely led, will beat a hundred without a head.

The man who lives by himself and for himself is apt to be corrupted by the company he keeps.
--Charles Henry Parkhurst

Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.
--Joshua Loth Liebman

War is hell.
 --William Tecumseh Sherman

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
--Robert Goddard

You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.
 --Publilius Cyrus

He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.
 --Publilius Cyrus

For want of a nail, the shoe was lost;
    For want of a shoe, the horse was lost;
    For want of a horse, the rider was lost;
    For want of a rider, the battle was lost.
--Benjamin Franklin

The man who can't make a mistake can't make anything.
--Abraham Lincoln

Every man has three characters--that which he exhibits, that which has, and that which he thinks he has.
--Alphonse Karr

Act well your part, there all honour lies.
--Pope, The Essay on Man

No matter how long the river, the river will reach the sea.
--Eugene Fitch Ware

 
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