Military Quotes

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...

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.