Alexander Vandegrift quotes

Alexander Vandegrift quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps.”
-- Alexander Vandegrift

#Military Quotes #Knees Quotes #Tradition Quotes

“If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.”
“I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.”
“When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.”
“If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems labeling them as such. After all, cancer will kill one in every two men and one in every three women now alive, reports Samuel Epstein, chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition. Like our ancestors, we act in ways that will bemuse future societies. The military-industrial complex lubricates the mass-agriculture system with fossil fuels. Tons of heavy metals and other hazardous, even radioactive, waste is sprayed on American agricultural soil.”
“The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps.”
“No one can do in the octagon what I can do. That 'Showtime Knee' - I never even practiced that once.”
“Courage is fear on its knees.”

Source : Beverly Lewis (2012). “The Fiddler (Home to Hickory Hollow Book #1)”, p.209, Baker Books
“I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition”
“As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.”
“If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions. I'm the girl with the unquenchable thirst.”

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