Military Quotes · Page 71

Fundamentalist groups like Christian Embassy have infiltrated the very top of the U.S. military and gained positions of influence in the Pentagon.

— Darrel Ray

All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who…

— Michael Herr

The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s - military intelligence, commercial, more recently, tourism and cultural relations.

— Noam Chomsky

Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war…

— Anonymous

“As suddenly the whole world would slip back into a mollifying, untormented dark; their aching bodies knew its calm.”

— David Jones

Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for…

— Adam Driver

If Russia had the same military power that America did, earth would be called Russia.

— Greg Gutfeld

My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it.

— John W. Vessey, Jr

When President Bush sees America, he sees only a military superpower. I see a moral and idealistic beacon. Mr. Bush may talk…

— John F. Kerry

The mindless rejoicing at home is really appalling; it makes me fear that the first blow against Tokyo will make them wilt…

— Isoroku Yamamoto

In 1880 at the Military Hospital at Constantine, I discovered, on the edges of the pigmented spherical bodies in the blood of…

— Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

President Clinton broke ground Saturday for the World War II memorial in Washington. He'll never have the military's full respect. However, after…

— Argus Hamilton

Would you respect a God you could comprehend? And yet very often thatÂ’s what we want - a God who reflects our…

— Richard Rohr

I think we ought to use the same formula that we used when we took out Moammar Gadhafi in Libya. We have…

— Dutch Ruppersberger

People tell me I saved hundreds and hundreds of people. But I have to tell you: it’s not the people you saved…

— Chris Kyle

The truth is that the free movement of goods, people, and money that developed under British hegemony between 1870 and 1913 -…

— Ha-Joon Chang

Our job is to provide coalition the military equipment that they need; the air support they need; special forces when appropriate. But…

— Bernie Sanders

Every time we have come to the end of a conflict, somehow we have persuaded ourselves that the nature of mankind and…

— Robert M. Gates

Israel is the American watchdog in the Middle East, and that's why the Palestinians remain victims of one of the longest military…

— John Pilger

Reagan said that government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem. And he was going to dismantle that…

— Brian Balogh

What outrages me as a representative of journalists is that there's not more outrage about the number, and the brutality, and the…

— Linda Foley

All American wars (except the Civil War) have been fought with the odds overwhelmingly in favor of the Americans. In the history…

— H. L. Mencken

They [people of Afghanistan] didn't want Al-Qaeda in their country. They didn't appreciate the Taliban taking control. But they really have an…

— Immortal Technique

I grew up in a family where I was told there were no limitations on me as a girl and I could…

— Martha McSally

“Maxim 15: Only you can prevent friendly fire. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries”

— Howard Tayler

We have seen the most well-funded gay and lesbian rights organizations valorize the US military in their work seeking inclusion in military…

— Dean Spade

My business is to succeed, and I’m good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I think in 'Escape Fire,' we really look at the military as a microcosm for the rest of America.

— Matthew Heineman

I'm one of three boys raised by a single mom in a military beach town in the South.

— Jason Winston George

Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.

— Richard M. Nixon

The more a country makes military weapons, the more insecure it becomes: if you have weapons, you become a target for attack.

— Albert Einstein

Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.

— John Hodgman

“During the war some of the country’s sharpest minds had looked as if they had been dragged through a hedge backwards.”

— Sara Sheridan

The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over today and…

— Yakubu Gowon

“One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.”

— Robert Jordan

Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.

— Winston Churchill

We have severely underestimated the Russians, the extent of the country and the treachery of the climate. This is the revenge of…

— Heinz Guderian

I have great respect and understanding for military commitment due to my own family's involvement with the armed forces.

— Carolyn Murphy

The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.

— Noam Chomsky

Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.

— Jalal Talabani