Quotes

This quote is by Aristotle...

 

That quote is by English philosopher Francis Bacon, who was around long before The Wall Street Journal.

 

The last 2 white men to see Custer alive and also be close enough to hear him, were Daniel Kanipe and John Martin aka Giovanni Martini. Kanipe took a verbal message to the pack train and Martin took a written message to Benteen. Hence being sent on those errands saved both their lives.
I believe it was Kanipe who overheard Custer say just before riding back:
"Hurrah boys, we've got them! We'll finish them up and then go home to our station."

GAC was plenty confident before the outset of the battle.



IMO, the most famous Marine was Manila John Basilone.
My favorite Marine however was Smedley Butler

 

"Inflexibility is the worst human failing. You can learn to check impetuosity, overcome fear with confidence and laziness with discipline. But for rigidity of mind, there is no antidote. It carries the seeds of its own destruction." ~ Anton Myrer

 

"If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty laid on him. For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married." - Deuteronomy 24:5

 

"Real men take bubble baths and a bad gambler never knows when to quit." ~ Henry Spencer

 

" I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good. Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can."~ Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

 

"Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is
represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a
homicidal maniac".- George Orwell

 

"All over the place, from the popular culture to the
propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that
they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify
decisions and to consume." - Noam Chomsky

 

"The best argument that can be made against democracy is to spend 5 minutes talking to the average voter" ~ Winston Churchill