Rear Guard

Quotable Quotes

Written by Ed Sanow

Never, never, never, never give up. –Winston Churchill

Ability without honor is useless. –Marcus Tullius Cicero

Victorious warriors win first then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. –Sun Tzu

No battle plan ever survives the first encounter with the enemy. –Dwight Eisenhower

The essence of civilization is that the strong have a duty to protect the weak. –George W. Bush

The whole success as you go through life lies in careful preparation followed by rapid execution. –Napoleon Bonaparte

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. –Sun Tzu

Be courteous to all, friendly to none. Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet. Decide to be aggressive enough, quickly enough. –U.S. Marine Corps (anonymous)

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat. –Ronald Reagan

Take calculated risks. That is quite different than being rash. –George S. Patton

No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family. –J. Edgar Hoover

Whoever can surprise well must conquer. –John Paul Jones

If everybody is thinking alike, somebody isn’t thinking. –George S. Patton

Sweat saves blood. –Ronald Reagan

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. –Napoleon Bonaparte

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. –Robert Kennedy

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being the only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence. –Robert Peel

Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster. –Sun Tzu

When constabulary duty’s to be done, a policeman’s lot is not a happy one. –Sir William Gilbert

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence therefore is not an act but a habit. –Aristotle

We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. –Winston Churchill

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable. –George S. Patton

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. –Xenophon

It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. –Ronald Reagan

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. –Edmund Burke

No man in the wrong can stand up against a fellow that’s in the right and keeps on a-comin’. –Texas Ranger Bill McDonald

An expert is one who does the basics right every time. –Anonymous

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint. –Alexander Hamilton

Have a plan. Have a backup plan because the first plan probably won’t work. –U.S. Marine Corps (anonymous)

Don’t tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. –George S. Patton

Let every person be subject to the government…but if you do evil, be afraid, for he bears not the sword in vain; for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath on him that does evil. –Romans 13:1,4

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They are just braver five minutes longer. –Ronald Reagan

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemy’s. –Napoleon Bonaparte

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. –Sun Tzu

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. –George S. Patton