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Unlike our enemies, we don’t fight because we hate what’s in front of us, we fight because we love what’s behind us.

— Pete Hegseth The War on Warriors (2024)

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Our troops will make mistakes, and when they do, they should get the overwhelming benefit of the doubt.

The War on Warriors (2024)

Every soldier swears an oath to the Constitution, nothing else, and should never bend a knee to a politician, a party, or a philosophy—let alone one that is an enemy to that very same Constitution.

The War on Warriors (2024)

We're going to go on offense, not just on defense, maximum lethality, not tepid legality, violent effect, not politically correct.

When you send Americans to war, their mandate should be to lethally dominate the battlefield. If that makes you uneasy, keep us at home.

The War on Warriors (2024)

This book is dedicated to the real 1 percent: the warriors- past, present and future- who answered freedom's call.

Modern Warriors (2020)

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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