Military Quotes · Page 33

They are becoming hysterical. This is the result of frustration.

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.

— Henry George Bohn

“Ceasefire only postpones war, what’s needed is demilitarization.”

— Abhijit Naskar

No police or military in the world can protect people who are cowards.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If your attack is going too well, youre walking into an ambush.

— Infantry Journal

A piece of paper makes you an officer, a radio makes you a commander.

— Omar N. Bradley

My God, I wish we had [the] 9th Australian Division with us this morning.

— Freddie de Guingand

The military intelligence. Two words combined that can't make sense.

— Megadeth

If the military contractors are out of Afghanistan, Karzai is out 15 minutes later.

— Rachel Maddow

I want to stop directing so many of resources to the military budget and focus them here at home. I believe government…

— Cynthia Dill

You don't go after veterans in this country. If there's one thing that's sacrosanct, it is the American military veteran.

— Katy Tur

Distance to love is like the wind to a flame ; It extinguishes the small and ignites the great.

— Anonymous

[On gay ban in the military:] Heroism, I believe, is a trait that does not know race, color, creed, sex, or sexual…

— Dianne Feinstein

“Our culture has become so obsessed with celebrity that it’s easy to confuse fame with success. They are not the same thing.”

— Daniel Rodriguez

[Donald] Trump's establishing his bona fides on military preparedness. No histrionics, just the facts.

— Rush Limbaugh

There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.

— Hari Kunzru

God works to over throw the ungodly, and increasingly the world will come under the dominion of Christians, not by military aggression,…

— David Chilton

President Obama is asking Congress to support a military strike in Syria. If they approve, it will be the first time Congress…

— Jay Leno

“Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most…

— Ambrose Bierce

Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace…

— Elie Wiesel

A nation's greatness is measured not just by its gross national product or military power, but by the strength of its devotion…

— Ronald Reagan

These are not ordinary human beings. They are criminals. As a matter of fact, they are criminals, both by nature and by…

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

It is a principle of the art of war that one should simply lay down his life and strike. If one's opponent…

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

I'm very much in the trenches, and I don't live in the lap of luxury. I come from a working-class military family.…

— Pink

The fact that many private expenditures are mutually offsetting actually happens to constitute a remarkably good bit of fiscal news. Mutually offsetting…

— Robert H. Frank

When you invade Grenada, or when you invade Panama to capture a disreputable person, or when you bomb the Bosnia area, you…

— Jimmy Carter

You bomb ISIL. You're not trying to bomb innocent people. And that requires intelligence and confidence in our military to be able…

— Barack Obama

“As great as the all-volunteer force had been under Ronald Reagan, that force had always been a mighty war ax, something designed…

— Richard Phillips

Any outside use of military power would at best furnish a temporary respite from the processes that we see playing out. We…

— Paul R. Pillar

“This indignation builds up an accumulation of anger over the many ways I am being reminded by the system then and now…

— Diane Chamberlain

I think the key anecdote in the book is when Colin [Powell] and I were discussing Iraq. Colin was upstairs in the…

— George W. Bush

So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform,…

— Barack Obama

A military without political training is a potential criminal.

— Thomas Sankara

I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character.

— Oliver North

War is too important a matter to be left to the military.

— Georges Clemenceau

General James Mattis is a storied and much-respected military leader.

— Michele Flournoy

When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend.

— US Marine Corps

With growing economic prowess comes, of course, military power.

— Andrew Neil

They feed the crocodile in the hope that he will eat them last.

— Winston Churchill

Never let the enemy pick the battle site.

— George S. Patton