Our country regularly uses military force, but only a fraction of Americans serve in the military. This means fewer and fewer people… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
I believe military force can be used to redress or change the balance of power in the world, but I think that… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the… — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
At the same time I think it is absolutely necessary that there be no confusion, no misunderstanding that if the Iraqis.. do… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The peace and joy of the Christmas season was marred by a proclamation of a general strike of all the military forces… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Military force is irrelevant to many of the most urgent threats we face. If we are to solve our myriad domestic problems… — William Hartung Copy Share Image
[A] military force was collected in Europe, formidable by their arms and numbers, if the generals had understood the science of command,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
United States has comparative advantage in military force. It tends to react to anything at first with military force, that's what it's… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We want to approach this in a multilateral way, talking with our friends, consulting with our security council colleagues in the United… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
It is one of history's most mocking ironies that the German customs union, which set out to dominate Europe and conquer Britain… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
Right now, where do we stand? Well right at the Russian border, both sides have been taking provocative actions, both sides are… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
...to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Over the past five decades, civilian officials have favored the use of military force over the opposition of their military counterparts. In… — Melvin A. Goodman Copy Share Image
It is clear that military force and our policy of preemption are alone insufficient to make us safe. But help is on… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
The pre-war empire had been sufficiently informal and sufficiently cheap for Parliament to claim authority over it without having to concern itself… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
I'm post-cynical on this stuff. I look at the El Salvador model as the glory days: Why don't we just fund the… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
Cities can be rebuilt, industries can be rebuilt, what really matters are strategy forces, military forces and the cadres leaders, political, military… — Richard Pipes Copy Share Image
Our country represents nothing but peaceful intentions toward all the earth, but it ought not to fail to maintain such a military… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Athens' biggest worry was the sheer recklessness of its own democratic government. A simple majority of the citizenry, urged on and incensed… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Resort to military force is a first sure sign that we are giving up the struggle for the democratic way of life,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
As a soldier and combat veteran, I believe American military forces should only be used in the defense and furtherance of our… — Joni Ernst Copy Share Image
The pathos of it all is that the America which is to be protected by a huge military force is not the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Any military force should be dictated by the vital national security interests of the United States. And if and when we use… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Some members, like Britain and France, are ready, willing and able to take action in Libya or Mali. Others are uncomfortable with… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
The United States is alone among all the countries in that it does not permit US military forces to be under any… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My advice is: 1. Be judicious in the use of military force. 2. When military force is required, use overwhelming force. 3.… — Steve Stivers Copy Share Image
What nearly all suicide terrorist attacks have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw… — Robert Pape Copy Share Image
It appears that with the deadline for exile come and gone, Saddam Hussein has chosen to make military force the ultimate weapons… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
The minute Mr. Putin decided to put his military forces in Syria, I went to see him. And I said, "Look, here's… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
We need to destroy ISIS in the caliphate. That's - that should be our objective. The refugee issue will be solved if… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
The use of large-scale military force in volatile regions of underdeveloped countries is difficult to do right, has major unintended consequences and… — Dennis C. Blair Copy Share Image
So a military force has no constant formation, water has no constant shape: the ability to gain victory by changing and adapting… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
We believe half-instinctively that evil always defeats itself in the long run. Pacifism is founded largely on this belief. Don't resist evil,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
America has the strongest, best-trained, best-led military force in the world, and we have failed them. Our military today is struggling in… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The demands of leadership have changed. The highest levels if leadership require mastery of a new task: job creation. Traditional leadership through… — Jim Clifton Copy Share Image
Voting against the resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq was one of my proudest moments as a senator. It… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
The most fundamental paradox is that if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and to use… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what they're all going to face, whichever one of them becomes president on January 21st of 2009. They will… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Deterrence failed completely as a guide in setting rational limits on the size and composition of military forces, spurring an insatiable arms… — George Lee Butler Copy Share Image
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