I Like The Cut Of His Jib !!

Musings, leadership tidbits and quotes posted by a retired Navy Captain (really just a high performing 2nd Class Petty Officer) who hung up his uniform a bit too early. He still wears his Navy service on his sleeve. He needs to get over that. "ADVANCE WARNING - NO ORIGINAL THOUGHT!" A "self-appointed" lead EVANGELIST for the "cryptologic community". Keeping CRYPTOLOGY alive-one day and Sailor at a time. 2015 is 80th Anniversary of the Naval Security Group.

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Patriotism is devotion to an ideal

"Patriotism is not something you put on each morning like a clean shirt. Patriotism is not something you can buy at the super market. Patriotism is not something you can get in return for a monthly paycheck to a man in uniform. It is devotion to an ideal—a principle; a burning desire that the things that people think are best for their country and its people are protected from erosion—protected from any and everything which would tend to lessen in the mind of the individual the image he has of how things should be in his ideal country."

— General David M. Shoup, former Commandant of the Marine Corps

2 comments:

cat said...: Oo-rah, Captain.
I'm a total right-wing conservative, so you might say I'm a bit patriotic, too. :)
Cat; April 27, 2008 at 10:08 PM
JohnE said...: Shoup was about as far from right wing conservative as a Marine Commandant could be. He called it like he saw it, disdained war and those who would send us to war. ead up on him and Smedley Butler if you are in the mood for a paradigm shift...; July 5, 2011 at 10:22 AM