National Defense Service

Famous quotes containing the words national, defense and/or service:

    “We are constantly thinking of the great war ... which saved the Union ... but it was a war that did a great deal more than that. It created in this country what had never existed before—a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union, it was the rebirth of the Union.”
    —Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

    “The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people’s identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.”
    —Václav Havel (b. 1936)

    “The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.”
    —Sun Tzu (6th–5th century B.C.)