Military Quotes · Page 38

The fear of war is worse than war itself.

— Seneca the Younger

Military action without politics is like a tree without a root.

— Ho Chi Minh

We're not running out of [fixed] targets. Afghanistan is.

— Donald Rumsfeld

“War?' The word held too much definition for three letters.”

— Shannon A. Thompson

The work for giants...to serve well the guns!

— Walt Whitman

LIKE THIS IF YOU SUPPORT YOUR OUR TROOPS

— Brian Wright

In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it.

— Erwin Rommel

I have family that are vets of the military. My grandfather served as well.

— Corey Hawkins

The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology.

— Cynthia McKinney

The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.

— Sun Tzu

In military science there is a principle more important than "Forward": it is that the task should be proportionate to the means.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In the military, I learned that ‘leadership’ means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments,

— Tulsi Gabbard

I was the only outsider to visit the Abbottabad compound where bin Laden lived before the Pakistani military demolished it.

— Peter Bergen

It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are so low.

— Patricia Schroeder

The bayonet has always been the weapon of the brave and the chief tool of victory

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.

— Carl von Clausewitz

The great powers of the world may have done wonders in giving the world an industrial and military look but the great…

— Steven Biko

Everything changes when you become president. Everything. The things that you've said during the campaign on military strategy and policy, it automatically…

— Rush Limbaugh

I remind you again we had those elections [in Afghanistan and Iraq] because we had boots on the ground and we had…

— Peter Schoomaker

We only went to the moon for military reasons. The space enthusiasts of the day kept saying, "Oh, we're on the moon;…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

How ironic for peacemaking efforts to discover that hatred is stronger for many than love; that the longing to achieve power through…

— Oscar Arias

Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff. During a briefing military stuff in which officials began…

— Sean William Scott

I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the…

— George J. Mitchell

Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving…

— Subcomandante Marcos

I am sorry to be so blunt, but I do not see much ambiguity here. [Barack] Obama was late to affirm the…

— Judith Butler

Contrary to received wisdom, the British are not an insular people in the conventional sense - far from it. For most of…

— Linda Colley

In the minds of many Western politicians, military interventions and air strikes appear to have become legitimate policy tools since the NATO…

— Vladimir Yakunin

“You could say I lost my faith in science and progress You could say I lost my belief in the holy Church…

— Sting

Sir, what can be said of these things? Is it the arm of the flesh that hath done these things? Is it…

— Oliver Cromwell

Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because,…

— Francois Rabelais

“The Army's new pitch was simple. Good pay, good benefits, a manageable amount of adventure... but don't worry, we're not looking to…

— Rachel Maddow

Military families so much appreciate the love, support and prayers.

— Bob McDonnell

Night gangsters! For this crime I will exact a thousand fold revenge!

— Adolf Hitler

After Vietnam, the Democrats became fundamentally the anti-military as a party.

— Heather Wilson

Military discipline is merely a perfection of social servitude.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

— Voltaire

I co-founded the DNC Veterans and Military Families Council in 2005.

— Christine Pelosi

Military-assault weapons have no place in civilian hands.

— Wayne Messam

We will fight with full force and might of the United States military.

— George W. Bush