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"And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared."
— Homer, The Odyssey
"True courage is to live when it is time to live, and to die when it is time to die."
— Mishima, Runaway Horses
Remember to be the Courageous Rat, Legionaries.
"Ἕκτορ, μή μοι, ἄλαστε, συνημοσύνας ἀγόρευε·
ὡς οὐκ ἔστι λέουσι καὶ ἀνδράσιν ὅρκια πιστά,
οὐδὲ λύκοι τε καὶ ἄρνες ὁμόφρονα θυμὸν ἔχουσιν,
ἀλλὰ κακὰ φρονέουσι διαμπερὲς ἀλλήλοισιν,
ὣς οὐκ ἔστ᾽ ἐμὲ καὶ σὲ φιλήμεναι, οὐδέ τι νῶϊν
ὅρκια ἔσσονται, πρίν γ᾽ ἢ ἕτερόν γε πεσόντα
αἵματος ἆσαι Ἄρηα, ταλαύρινον πολεμιστήν.
παντοίης ἀρετῆς μιμνήσκεο· νῦν σε μάλα χρὴ
αἰχμητήν τ᾽ ἔμεναι καὶ θαρσαλέον πολεμιστήν."

"Hector, don't talk to me like that, you fool;
for there are no trusty oaths between lions and men,
nor do wolves and lambs have a harmonious mind,
but they think evil thoughts against each other through and through,
so it is not possible for me and you to be friends, nor will there be
any oaths for us, until one or the other falls
and sates Ares with blood, the hard-fighting warrior.
Remember all kinds of excellence; now it is very much your duty
to be a spearman and a bold warrior."
"One must create one's own life as one would a work of art. The life of an intelligent man must be created by himself. True superiority consists in nothing else."
— D'Annunzio
An America that fights.
An America that wins.
Starship Trooper America.
Mamma told Johnny not to go downtown
The Marine Corps recruiter was hanging around;

But Johnny went downtown anyway
To hear what the recruiter had to say

The recruiter asked Johnny what he wanted to be
Johnny said I wanna join the infantry.

So Johnny caught a plane out to Vietnam,
To fight some people called the Viet Cong.

Killed a hundred men with his rifle and blade,
Only god knows how many lives he saved.

Johnny was bad and he was brave,
Johnny jumped on a hand grenade.

Saved the lives of the men he led,
But now poor Johnny he was dead.

Before he died this is what he said,
To tell his momma when he was dead

Momma, momma, don't you cry,
The Marine Corps motto is Semper Fi.
Philosophy started with Athenians who hated Athens and wanted to live like Spartans but couldn't so they just talked about it all day.
“Honor is simply the morality of superior men."
— H. L. Mencken
"And it has always been this way: the last game is always the game of arms. At the last minute," Spengler said, "it has always been a platoon of soldiers that has saved civilization."
— Primo de Rivera
"Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true."
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”
— Sir Edmund Hillary
“In the furnace of pain, the human being is forged anew.”
— Jünger, On Pain, 1934
“In particular, the virtues and ambitions called forth by war are unlikely to find expression in liberal democracies. There will be plenty of metaphorical wars—corporate lawyers specializing in hostile takeovers who will think of themselves as sharks or gunslingers, and bond traders who imagine, as in Tom Wolfe’s novel The Bonfire of the Vanities, that they are “masters of the universe.” (They will believe this, however, only in bull markets.) But as they sink into the soft leather of their BMWs, they will know somewhere in the back of their minds that there have been real gunslingers and masters in the world, who would feel contempt for the petty virtues required to become rich or famous in modern America. How long megalothymia will be satisfied with metaphorical wars and symbolic victories is an open question. One suspects that some people will not be satisfied until they prove themselves by that very act that constituted their humanness at the beginning of history: they will want to risk their lives in a violent battle, and thereby prove beyond any shadow of a doubt to themselves and to their fellows that they are free. They will deliberately seek discomfort and sacrifice, because the pain will be the only way they have of proving definitively that they can think well of themselves, that they remain human beings.”
― Fukuyama
"To repeat the acts of the gods and of the mythical heroes is to restore primordial time, is to sanctify the world anew."
— Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane
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