Military Quotes · Page 31

I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.

— Charles de Gaulle

The information was correct but the interpretations were not.

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Join the military, there is nothing better. You get to travel a lot.

— Rudy Boesch

A soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of the general.

— Henry George Bohn

If our airforces are never used, they have achieved their finest goal.

— Nathan Farragut Twining

Without Spam, we wouldn't have been able to feed our army.

— Nikita Khrushchev

For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.

— Benito Mussolini

Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay its price.

— Sun Tzu

Anytime it was advertised that I was going to be at a particular place, the radicals would be there, the cameras with…

— William Westmoreland

The military is diverse and large, and it's public: it serves a public function; it serves a public duty.

— Chelsea Manning

The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.

— B. H. Liddell Hart

North Carolina, particularly the 8th District, has long played a key role in our Nation's military forces.

— Robin Hayes

I did 22 years in the military. I went through Paris Island. I'm a Marine. I will never not be one.

— Montel Williams

But as we move from this period of what many Iraqis regard as perceived occupation, we need to move towards one of…

— John Abizaid

This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

With regard to military discipline, I may safely say that no such thing existed in the Continental Army.

— Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

It is absurd to believe that soldiers who cannot be made to wear the proper uniform can be induced to move forward…

— Anonymous

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been awarded the highest rank in the country's military. The decision was praised by everyone…

— Conan O'Brien

The easiest and quickest path into the esteem of traditional military authorities is by the appeal to the eye, rather than to…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and…

— Bruce Jackson

I think that we're always gonna be in a position as Republicans and as conservatives where we gotta be willing to stand…

— Liz Cheney

America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

In the 1990s, Islamists in Algeria won elections like the Brotherhood did in Egypt. The Algerian military refused to allow the Islamists…

— Richard Engel

The most racist, nastiest act by the USA, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“They were worried about keeping military families strong. They were worried about the stress and strain of prolonged military service and how…

— Tucker Elliot

The most successful of the Tartar princes assumed the military command, to which he was entitled by the superiority either of merit…

— Edward Gibbon

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor -…

— Douglas MacArthur

Experience shows that great enterprises seldom end with a tidy and satisfactory flourish. Together, we are doing our best to re-establish peace…

— Queen Elizabeth II

Look, President Clinton had opportunities to get Osama bin Laden. President Bush had opportunities to get Osama bin Laden. I know how…

— John McCain

We all know why [the generals] are so critical of the defense secretary. They're being defensive because they weren't able to implement…

— Stephen Colbert

In no circumstance would the United States or any other nation have the right to mount a military invasion to overthrow another…

— David Cortright

The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The biggest mistake of my life was taking a military education.

— Robert E. Lee

There is only one decisive victory: the last.

— Carl von Clausewitz

Our military members should be able to defend themselves here and abroad.

— Tomi Lahren

“They had a past together. Did it rule out a future?”

— Lisa Carlisle

Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.

— Frank Zappa

I have such admiration and respect for the military and military families.

— Anna Todd

Here's to us, who's like us Damn few, and they're all dead.

— Anonymous

“When you get right down to it, militaries are essentially legalized mafias.”

— Michel Templet