"There are some who've forgotten why we..." - Quote by Ronald Reagan
There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war, it's to be prepared for peace.
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“Soldiers don't complain...I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.”
“I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.”
“A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?”
More on Peace
“The majority of South Africans, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. It has to be ended by our own decisive mass action in order to build peace and security. The mass campaign of defiance and other actions of our organization and people can only culminate in the establishment of democracy.”
“Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.”
“We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed, to forget the feuds of a thousand years and work for the larger harmonies on which the future depends.”