Military Quotes

The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then...

It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are t...

I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant," said Blouse."Right you are, sir!" said the sergeant. "...

Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they...

Every book of tactics in the regiment was in use from morning until night, and the officers and non-...

The men worked hard and faithfully. As a rule, in spite of the number of rough characters among them...

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of...

The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends...

Poor people have poor options. Chavez found the Army almost by accident, and had found it a true ope...

As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed a...

If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriousl...

the military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of ...

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military po...

Where are your free and compulsory schools? Does every one know how to read in the land of Dante and...

Our military might is the guarantor of Russia's security and independence.

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I s...

We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.

During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in...

This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This ...

An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.

There are no more worlds to conquer!

He said: 'You don't understand. We never thought that we were being used to conquer people. Not at a...

There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's alwa...

I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of ...

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure ...

I expected, as I approached the corporate world, to enter a brisk, logical, nonsense-free zone, almo...

The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.

Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and u...

...Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division.

I'm done doing this!' Obama said, finally erupting. 'We've all agreed on a plan. And we're all going...

Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

An army is a miniature of the society which produces it.

Yet if he had been asked… if he were happy… He would have admitted readily enough that he was uncomf...

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

The way to defeat international terrorism is through international cooperation based on internationa...

In the many roles I have played in my acting career as military figures, I have simply drawn upon th...

Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything ...

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prep...

The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have...

Some governments choose to cooperate with the United States in intelligence, law enforcement, or mil...

Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy ...

An equation: 40,000 dead young men = 3,000 tons of bone and flesh, 124,000 pounds of brain matter, 5...

People generally don’t suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer fro...

The victims of PTSD often feel morally tainted by their experiences, unable to recover confidence in...

In other words if a man is armed, then one pretty much has to take his opinions into account. One ca...

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the AN...

The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every adv...

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldie...

It is fatal to enter an war without the will to win it.

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any treat from without, ...

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a t...

We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic...

I doubt that my sense of personal freedom is any stronger than anybody else's. I'm happy to respect ...

The army is the only order of men sufficiently united to concur in the same sentiments, and powerful...

The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as th...

The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as th...

In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.

My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack.

If you only would!" He added rather diffidently: "If you would not mind remembering that I am a mili...

Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.

Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industri...

You have no idea how much it contributes to the general politeness and pleasantness of diplomacy whe...

I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked wi...

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on t...

We sleep peaceably in our beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on our beh...

The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it contin...

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power a...

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are...

War is too important to be left to the generals

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security...

Military men are the scourges of the world.

Negotiations with Iran, especially, will not be easy under any circumstances, but I suspect that the...

For some twenty years the window that opened at the end of the Cold War has been allowed to hang fla...

I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong feeling about participating in...

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or milita...

Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US...

As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and ou...

A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.

The U.S. military is not war weary. Our military draws strength from confronting our enemies when cl...

The Special Operations Network was instigated to handle policing duties considered either too unusua...

I had the good fortune and opportunity to come home and to tell the truth; many soldiers, like Pat T...

A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.

Some in my party threaten to send a message that they don't know a just war when they see it, and mo...

Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, ...

I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did t...

You are not a man anymore. You are a soldier. Your comfort is of no importance and your life isn’t o...

One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each sol...

They were frisky, eager and exuberant, and they had all been friends in the States. They were plainl...

-You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, ...

No such private nights of ecstasy or hushed-up drinking and sex orgies ever occurred. They might hav...

Composure and self-restraint were not only desirable characteristics in a woman, they were essental....

The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that...

It was an article of faith with NCOs [noncommissioned officers] that they were better than their off...

I fought to stay awake and keep the car on the road. And I thought back to texts I had read from the...

The plane was on descent. Reacher could feel it in his ears. And he could feel abrupt turns. The pil...

Well, do you suppose I made up my mind then that what I had seen was something sickening? Not a bit ...