"Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary."

-- Alfred M. Gray

#Military Quotes #Marine Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“If in a battle, I seize a bit of debatable land with a handful of soldiers, without having done anything to prevent an enemy bombardment of the position, would it ever occur to me to speak of a conquest of the terrain in question? Obviously not. Then why should I do so in chess?”
“We twist our souls around each otherâ€™s miseries.”
“But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth.”

Source : John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.40, Simon and Schuster
“A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.”
“God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half pitiful to see what importance we ascribe to it, and to its little ornaments and distinctions.”
“Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.”
“It is right, or absolute right, that an individual should develop the powers that are in him. He may be said to have a "natural right" to become what he is capable of becoming. This is his only natural right.”

Source : "Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights". Book by William Ernest Hocking. Ch. VII, Natural Right, § 33, p. 74, 1926.
“I've always been a very good heel!”

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