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“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address

“We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.”
― J. Robert Oppenheimer

“May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“Each of us is born with a history already in place”
― Walter Dean Myers, Bad Boy: A Memoir

“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. ”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”
― George S. Patton

“No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.”
― George S. Patton Jr., The Patton principles

“Better to fight for something than live for nothing.”
― George S. Patton

“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“When in doubt, ATTACK!”
― George S. Patton

“...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability.”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This is your time. Now get out there and take it.”
― Herb Brooks

“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.”
― Herb Brooks

“gentlemen you don't have enough talent to win on talent alone”
― Herb Brooks

“Great moments are born from great opportunities.”
― Herb Brooks

“I exchanged my flannel shirt for a Rangers jersey and zapped the television on. Probably I should make more phone calls, but the Rangers were playing and priorities were priorities.”
― Janet Evanovich, Three to Get Deadly

“Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
― J. Robert Oppenheimer