Conor Lamb Quotes

National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.

We've got to protect our young men and women and we've got to win that, whatever the cost.

Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

I think it's very uncomfortable for people to talk to children about war, and so they don't because it's easier not to. But then you have young people at eighteen who are enlisting in the army, and they really don't have the slightest idea what they're getting into.

Shall This Continue? Join the Navy.

They [college fraternities] are all very risky operations for young people to be involved in .... Fraternities are part of an industry that has tremendous risk and a tremendous record of rape, serious injury, and death, and the vast majority of them share common risk management policies that are fundamentally flawed. Most of them are awash in alcohol, and most of them are bereft of any meaningful adult supervision.

If ever the call comes to them, the young will go straight from the ranks of the neutralists into the ranks of he Majesty's Forces, as they have so often done in the past.

... we might better reexamine the reasons for entering the war than abolish volunteers and substitute for them men dragged into the ranks by draft.

It is fundamentally wrong—and cowardly—in a democratic society to claim that those who stand between us and a potential enemy should be risking their lives simply because they are ‘following the marketplace’ and the military is their ‘best deal’.

All able bodied male citizens … are hereby declared to be the National Forces.

No free government was ever founded, or ever preserved its liberty, without uniting the characters of the citizen and soldier in those destined for the defense of the state...such area well-regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen...

Throughout history, rich nations have gotten to the future first. Their companies can afford to equip their tinkerers and visionaries with the most advanced materials, instruments and knowledge.

It is not enough to teach our young people to be successful...so they can realize their ambitions, so they can earn good livings, so they can accumulate the material things that this society bestows. Those are worthwhile goals. But it is not enough to progress as individuals while our friends and neighbors are left behind

I was proud indeed of the Services as they marched by in the rain. Everyone in fit condition, looking smart in spite of the weather. West Point, Annapolis, the Coast Guard School and the regular Army, Navy and Marines. These Services and the men who compose them deserve our gratitude and respect. They give service which can never be paid for in money. We pray that it may never be war service, but the world is not safe as yet from this spirit of madness and while the United States of America is the greatest peace loving nation in the world, her first line of defense, both in peace and in war are these men who belong to what are rightly termed the Services of the United States.

It is only tradition that keeps men from being even more vitally interested in peace than women for they are the first line of defense. Luckily the youth of the nation, both men and women, are recognizing this fact.

The President knows that if this country needed a million men, and needed them in a day, the call would go out at sunrise and the sun would go down on a million men in arms.

The say that “freedom is not free.” Today we have put a significant down payment on liberty.

Abolish Fraternities: If a corporation had a division that didn’t fit their business model, failed to yield and adequate return or caused reputational harm they would get rid of it.

I have great difficulty in finding a good reason for telling boys eighteen years old they should not go in the Army. I presume this is because I think there is nothing more important in the world than to win this war [World War II], because if we don't win it there won't be any schools to go to.

The most important resource of counties of the future will be the number of math trained brains.

The military is arguably the most significant social institution in our country.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

We Marines believe that God gave America the greatest gift He could bestow to man while he lived on this earth -freedom. We also believe He gave us another gift nearly as precious - our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Coast Guardsmen, and Marines - to safeguard that gift and guarantee no force on this earth can ever steal it away.

As a citizen of the United States, I am ready, willing, and able to bear arms for this country.

We're all in this together, and we all have to make an investment in our most precious possession and in the foundation of our future: our young people.