Military Quotes · Page 189

While hitting one must guard ... In order to hit with effect, the enemy must be taken off his guard.

— B. H. Liddell Hart

There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It's really great.

— Anonymous

I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.... Every soldier thinks something of…

— Curtis LeMay

We have military bases all over the world, and that's purely to protect our portfolio abroad.Our investments, and our production, our exploitation…

— Philip Berrigan

The function and Navy in any future war will be to support the dominant air arm.

— Jimmy Doolittle

One hundred infidels committed suicide as they entered the holy city of Baghdad. Their tanks will become their tombs.

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

The point I wish to make is that those things cause the soldier to remember that the people at home are behind…

— John J. Pershing

The building housing America's military brass is a five-sided pentagon, but somehow, the people in it still manage to make it the…

— Jon Stewart

I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the…

— Karl Marlantes

Despite the dazzling successes of modern technology and the unprecedented power of modern military systems, they suffer from a common and catastrophic…

— Barry Commoner

We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“It’s hard to describe being an expatriate of sorts to people who’ve never lived overseas, but when you’re an American living in…

— Tucker Elliot

I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected.

— William Westmoreland

During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the…

— Stephen Ambrose

Our military is doing everything it can to equip Iraq's forces so our troops can come home as soon as possible, but…

— Mike Rogers

[Addressing a group of military officers:] Are you a feminist? Oh ... wrong question. I should have asked, 'Are you a father?'…

— Estelle Ramey

You hardly find any military base in distant areas from the [Syria] cities unless it's an airport or something like this, but…

— Bashar al-Assad

In 1878, after having finished my course of instruction at the School of Military Medicine of Val-de-Grace, I was sent to Algeria…

— Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

But having made my decision as Commander-in-Chief based on what I am convinced is our national security interests, I will seek authorization…

— Barack Obama

Our military families already sacrifice so much to serve our nation, often having to relocate every few years.

— Ruben Gallego

The onset of bayonets in the hands of the valiant is irresistible.

— John Burgoyne

Of course, individuals are responsible for individual actions - the pilots who flew over Pearl Harbor and dropped bombs on those ships…

— Nicholson Baker

You can't kill your way to success in a counter insurgency effort. You have to protect the people, get the civil military…

— James G. Stavridis

Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.

— George S. Patton

You will come home before the leaves have fallen from the trees.

— Wilhelm II