Preparing Combat Ready

Famous quotes containing the words preparing, combat and/or ready:

    “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”
    —Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969)

    “In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality—the principle of order versus the split atom.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    “A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.”
    —Simone Weil (1909–1943)