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Thomas H. Moorer Quotes

1912–2004 United States

Thomas Hinman Moorer (February 9, 1912 – February 5, 2004) was an admiral and naval aviator in the United States Navy who served as the chief of naval operations from 1967 to 1970, and as the seventh chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1970 to 1974.

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Every time the politicians have drawn a line and split a nation that was originally formed by a common culture and by geography and so on, it always results in a war.

You've got to be willing to take orders. You've got to be willing to live in harsh circumstances. As someone has put it, you've got to be able to miss a meal if it's necessary.

The concern I have is the breakdown of the family, which is a basic beginning of a strong nation.

An atheist could not be as great a military leader as one who is not an atheist.

If you want to really get worried, just leap out in the middle of the ocean and let somebody drop a few bombs around you and you can really get worried. It's a matter of relativity. So many people in the country today and the world today, frankly, have nervous breakdowns over what I consider to be nothing.

Of course, survival is very important, and how the people around you behave and how you can help them, and so on. I made up my mind that I was not going to be worried in the least in the future by any ordinary things.

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