West Point Quotes

• Dame un ejército de graduados de West Point y ganaré una batalla... Dame un puñado de Aggies de Texas y ganaré una guerra.

  George S. Patton

  War, Army, Winning

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• "Deber, honor, patria": esas tres palabras sagradas dictan reverentemente lo que debes ser, lo que puedes ser y lo que serás. Son tu punto de encuentro para armarte de valor cuando el valor parece fallar, para recuperar la fe cuando parece que hay pocos motivos para tener fe, para crear esperanza cuando la esperanza se desvanece.

  Douglas MacArthur

  País, guerra, punto de encuentro

  Discurso de aceptación del premio Sylvanus Thayer, pronunciado el 12 de mayo de 1962, West Point, NY

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• El liderazgo es el arte de conseguir que otra persona haga algo que tú quieres que se haga porque él quiere hacerlo.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Liderazgo, Arte, Empresa

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954", p.477, Best Books on

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• I have therefore concluded to apply for the privilege of becoming a Cadet at West Point.

  George Stoneman

  Cadets, Becoming, Privilege

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• You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. They thought that one up at West Point

  Samuel Fuller

  Guy, West, Snipers

  "Fictional character: Zab". "The Big Red One", www.imdb.com. 1980.

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  Deber, honor, patria. Esas tres palabras sagradas dictan reverentemente lo que debes ser, lo que puedes ser, lo que serás.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Country, Rallying Point, Honor

  Discurso de aceptación del premio Sylvanus Thayer, pronunciado el 12 de mayo de 1962, West Point, NY

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• In each succeeding war there is a tendency to proclaim as something new the principles under which it is conducted. Not only those who have never studied or experienced the realities of war, but also professional soldiers frequently fall into the error. But the principles of warfare as I learned them at West Point remain unchanged.

  John J. Pershing

  Militar, Guerra, Otoño

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• Every member of our baseball team at West Point became a general: this proves the value of team sports.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Sports, Baseball, Team

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• [When I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan] that was the first time in which I looked out at a crowd of West Point graduates and knew that some of those might not come back because of that decision.

  Barack Obama

  Decision, Troops, Crowds

  Fuente: abcnews.go.com

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• Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Baseball, Disappointment, Team

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• Los viejos soldados nunca mueren, sólo se desvanecen.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Día de los Veteranos, Paz, Militares

  Discurso ante la reunión conjunta del Congreso, 19 abr. 1951

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• Almost every profession has an outstanding training ground. The military has West Point, music has Juilliard, and the culinary arts has The Institute.

  Craig Claiborne

  Art, Military, Training

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• I've led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I was doing, from West Point to the Air Force combat, MIT, looking for new things to study and get involved in. And then I got into the space program, and how disciplined can you get?

  Buzz Aldrin

  Air, Knowing, Space

  "Buzz Aldrin Reflects on Moon Landing". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 29, 2009.

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• I'm in regular contact with people who are still in the military-friends, family, people I served with, men and women I taught at West Point-and I look at every military issue through that lens. What they say or think weighs heavily on my mind.

  Tom Rooney

  Military, Men, Thinking

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• Palestine was the West Point and Annapolis for the world. In that little country God was training up a people out of whom, when the fullness of the time should come, His gospel cadets should emerge, fitted by all the training of all their national history for going out among the heathen and proclaiming the unsearchable riches of Christ.

  William Mackergo Taylor

  Country, People, Training

  William Mackergo Taylor (1879). "Moisés el Dador de la Ley"

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• The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Soldier, West, World

  1951 Address to Congress after being relieved of his duty by President Truman,19 Apr.

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• During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

  Bobby Knight

  Team, Winning, Texas

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• Así que Wesley Clark se presenta a presidente. Un tipo bastante asombroso. General de cuatro estrellas, primero de su clase en West Point, comandante supremo de la OTAN, vio combate en Vietnam, ganó la estrella de bronce, la estrella de plata, el corazón púrpura por ser herido en batalla. Mira, no soy un experto político, pero eso suena bastante bien al lado de atragantarse con un pretzel, caerse de un scooter y dejar caer al perro.

  Jay Leno

  Correr, Perro, Estrellas

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• He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Militar, Guerra, Hombres

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• They were saying you would be a tremendous addition to the military, and we can get you into West Point with a full scholarship. And I simply said, I want to be a doctor. I really appreciate it.

  Benjamin Carson

  Military, Doctors, Appreciate

  "The Barbershop Talks Keystone, Ben Carson's Week, New 'Star Wars' Trailer". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 7, 2015.

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• You know, years ago John Calhoun said that West Point men would lead great armies... He never thought they'd be leading them against each other. Well, if we have to meet like that, I'd rather we never meet again.

  Philibert Orry

  Guerra, Ejército, Hombres

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• If General Haig is so smart, why did he finish 214th (out of 310) in his graduating class at West Point? Does that mean there are 213 generals his age who are smarter than he is?

  Calvin Trillin

  Military, Smart, Mean

  Calvin Trillin (1987). "Uncivil liberties", Penguin Group USA

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• I went to college. West Point is technically a college.

  Lee Child

  College, West

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