Military Quotes

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 ...

The General belonged to the learned type of military men who believed that liberal and humane views ...

At some stage of development an officer had to stop following orders and start generating them.

The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'makin...

The Loneliness of the Military HistorianConfess: it's my professionthat alarms you.This is why few p...

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of ...

Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact tha...

McChrystal's defenders at the Pentagon were making the case Tuesday that the president and his men—(...

... A state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopolyof the legitimate use of phy...

We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and stand...

Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong mi...

As much as we Egyptians treasure our military, acting alone it cannot provide the legitimacy to lay ...

You don't get the fox to be in charge of the chicken coop. You don't give the outgoing regime - whic...

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

This "sir, yes sir" business, which would probably sound like horseshit to any civilian in his right...

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in...

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which g...

... When Princes devote themselves rather to pleasure than to arms, they lose their dominions.

... If instead of colonies you send troops, the cost is vastly greater, and the whole revenues of th...

She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration...

In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sen...

The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s - military intelligence, commercial, m...

If you're worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it's almost all attributable to ...

Sir, what can be said of these things? Is it the arm of the flesh that hath done these things? Is it...

Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.

But in the military you don't get trusted positions just because of your ability. You also have to a...

He committed the crime of stupidity while under my command," said Citizen."Oh my," said Rigg. "They'...

They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be ver...

Chickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war.

The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Nothing could be more important than that the work of a soldier is well done. No tools will make a m...

We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military tra...

Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.

The reason the founders chafed at the idea of an American standing army and vested the power of war ...

The artificial primacy of defense among our national priorities is a constant unearned windfall for ...

You. What is the moral difference, ifany, between the soldier and the civilian?""The difference," I ...

There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who...

If we can use an H-bomb--and as you said it's no checker game; it's real, it's war and nobody is foo...

...it has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the ...

One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but aliv...

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when t...

The participation if women in some armies in the world is in reality only symbolic. The talk about t...

America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that...

Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great advers...

You could say I lost my faith in science and progressYou could say I lost my belief in the holy Chur...

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible, a...

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory is won, whereas...

It is incumbent upon us to respond to the unique needs of military women and ensure they receive pro...

In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cen...

We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of ...

The strength of our economy allows us to maintain the mightiest military in the world, effectively e...

Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and di...

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...