My father served 26 years in the Air Force as a pilot and a pioneer in our missile programs. I learned early… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
The example of changing a constitution by assembling the wise men of the state, instead of assembling armies, will be worth as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am for relying for internal defense on our militia solely till actual invasion, and for such a naval force only as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A clever general... avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return.… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Bush can talk about 100,000 people wanting to go work in the police or in the army. It's because there's nothing else… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
This army is powerful because all its members have a conscious discipline; they have come together and they fight not for the… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There has been a good deal of comment — some of it quite outlandish — about what our postwar requirements might be… — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
“Let it be cold as hell outside, if you have a small stove burning in your little cottage, the hellish cold will… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The more closely [the German army] converged on [Stalingrad], the narrower became their scope for tactical manoeuvre as a lever in loosening… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
What you experience in the army, aged 18 to 21, is what you take through all your life. You cross invisible lines:… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune on his army: By commanding the army to advance or to… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
When I was in the army, there were four times that I was wounded. I also got more than 30 wounds on… — Nguyen Tan Dung Copy Share Image
Israel exists; it has a right to exist in peace behind secure and defensible borders; and it has a right to demand… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
When at just 27 years old, Qaddafi, colonel in the Libyan army, inspired by his Egyptian colleague Abdel Nasser, overthrew King Idris… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
“I like it too," Angelo said. "I love this country. Much you and anybody, and you know it." "I know it," Prew… — James Jones Copy Share Image
You want to make me the best soldier possible. Go down and look at the standings. Look at the all-time standings. So… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
One cannot seperate truth from actions...Physically inevitable or not, truth stands above all things. It is independant of who has the best… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
In contrast, Western historians, and those in South Korea, say the North attacked the South on June 25, 1950. Both sides agree… — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
Before I read the 'Bloody Sunday' script, I have to admit I hadn't thought about it that much. There was probably even… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
The publicity I have been getting, a good deal of which is untrue, and the rest of it ill considered, has done… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
My father was a soldier, which meant that he was a warrior, which meant that he was important. My mother rode a… — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
I regret that the Army felt it was necessary to rescind their invitation to the National Day of Prayer Task Force to… — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
ISIL is not the JV team. I cannot stress enough that there's a terrorist army in Syria and Iraq that wants to… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I can't imagine that I would be asked that by the president-elect [Donald Trump], or then-president [Barack Obama]. But it's - I'm… — James Mattis Copy Share Image
The old saying, 'An army marches on its stomach' has never been more true than in film and television. If it's good,… — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
The obligation d'âme meant that his only allegiance was to Felix, making them a separate kingdom of two, with Felix as king… — Sarah Monette Copy Share Image
What I have done up to this is nothing. I am only at the beginning of the course I must run. Do… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
To those who are trained in science, creationism seems a bad dream, a sudden coming back to life of a nightmare, a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There are no good wars or bad wars. The only thing bad about a war is to lose it. All wars have… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Government welfarism, with its ever-increasing army of pensioners and other beneficiaries, is fatally easy to launch and fatally easy to extend, but… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
God is my witness that up to now, my only aspiration in life is to be a useful element within the army!… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I was in a peacetime army. It was like something out of a Le Carre novel: studying the habits of your enemy.… — Steve Truglia Copy Share Image
The President may indeed in one respect resemble the commander of an army in peace, but in another and more essential sense… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
A soldier is the most-trusted profession in America. Americans have trust in you because you trust each other. No matter how difficult… — Richard A. Kidd Copy Share Image