America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal. — Lincoln Chafee Copy Share Image
(President Nixon,) in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as "commander-in-chief", to use military forces to keep himself… — Carl T. Rowan Copy Share Image
We should be more modest in our belief that we can impose democracy on a country through military force. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
For me, Sun Tzu's statement that military force is based upon deception is an extraordinary statement. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Germany is too big to sit on the sidelines on world issues. Military force is not the ultima ratio it used to… — Frank-Walter Steinmeier Copy Share Image
And after September the 11th, the United States Congress also granted me additional authority to use military force against al Qaeda. . . . — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
We have an authorization to use military force against terrorists. We passed it after 9/11. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man! — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The use of military force against Iran would be very dangerous. It would be very provocative. The only thing worse would be… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a… — Gunther Blumentritt Copy Share Image
The amount of military force necessary to provide reassurance depends on how dangerous people think the world is. And that I think… — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
But in terms of Saddam Hussein being there, let's remember that his country is divided, in effect. He does not control the… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
More than a decade and half after 9/11, U.S. military actions in countries such as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan and several other… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I went to Ft Bragg and learned that Delta was indeed gearing up for the rescue. Still I was concerned the Reagan… — Bo Gritz Copy Share Image
The United States does not view our authority to use military force against Al Qaeda as being restricted solely to 'hot' battlefields… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
[I]t's up to Republicans to expose the bureaucracies and criticize the orthodoxies - to ask why visas for travel to the United… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
It would seem to be the case that pressure on Iran to acquire nuclear weapons is almost totally driven by their need… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
I'm not an expert on the Middle East or terrorism or the use of military force or politics. It's all I can… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
No one will remember that President Obama supported the Arab Spring if it eventually fails and the region collapses back into the… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
In France those absurd perversions of the art of war which covered themselves under the name of chivalry were more omnipotent than… — Charles William Chadwick Oman Copy Share Image
Before I became President, in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, there had been fairly dramatic, and I think excessive, reductions in… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
For, once man is declared 'the measure of all things,' there is no longer a true, or a good, or a just,… — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
It has been very humbling and gratifying to have these men as our role models. Your generation enabled America to close out… — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
There hasn't been a military force like the United States of America in the history of the world. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets of the Assad regime. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging… — Otto Schily Copy Share Image
A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
The requirement for military force is clear when looking at the first of the nine points agreed in Vienna, which states that… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
The highly motivated young people who comprise the backbone of our military force truly are taking their place as one of America's… — Trent Lott Copy Share Image
If you are going to use military force, then you ought to use overwhelming military force. Use too much and deliberately use… — Curtis LeMay Copy Share Image
Let our position be absolutely clear: An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
he'd know that I think that . . . well, that bending an enemy's will through military force is the absolute last… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Clearly the American military has been a force for good for the United States. There's a reason we have a standing military.… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force, of nuclear bombs --… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
Judge candidly what a wretched figure the American empire will exhibit in the eye of other nations, without a power to array… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
The big issue is whether the United States will succeed in its venture of reshaping the Middle East. It is not clear… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“The first duty of the sovereign [is] that of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies, [which]… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
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