Military Quotes

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 ...

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.