Military Quotes · Page 39

In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and…

— Gijs de Vries

There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war. It's to be prepared for peace. There's…

— Ronald Reagan

“Well, honey, it’s capitalism that brings out the meanness and greed,” says I. “Our founding fathers did a decent job of framing…

— Jerry Ash

If you want to serve the country, you recognize it's rough and tumble. And it's nothing like serving your country in the…

— Mitt Romney

There are one or two very good women military historians who use imagination, great study and research; they can put themselves in…

— Antony Beevor

...to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect…

— James Madison

Florence Nightingale was an amazing figure. She created the American Red Cross. She saw the suffering from bad health conditions on the…

— Sharon Lawrence

“The most important thing is that you go to bed each night believing you raised a hero.”

— Elin Hilderbrand

The U.S. can no longer be the sheriff for the whole world. We can't be everywhere, and we can't always use military…

— Dutch Ruppersberger

We talk of globalization, and how much money is needed for the education of children in the world, their liberation and rehabilitation…

— Kailash Satyarthi

Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure…

— John Abizaid

Well, we've got a major effort under way to try to educate everybody, to let them know we have a zero tolerance…

— Dick Cheney

The military offered the opportunity to see the world, and meet other people and learn new customs. Plus, the Army taught soldiers…

— Tom Johnson

You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.

— John Abizaid

Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary.

— Alfred M. Gray

The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by…

— Martin McGuinness

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

— Jason Winston George

The application of military force, or the prospect of such application, inhibits terrorist violence.

— Benjamin Netanyahu

[Donald Trump] stood up and was asked a very specific question, if there's an undocumented illegal in the military or wants to…

— Eric Bolling

To conquer the command in the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat.

— Giulio Douhet

There's so much going on in Andrei [Bolkonsky]. He's wrangling with these big existential conundrums, and he tries out different routes to…

— James Norton

To imagine that it is possible to perform great military deeds without fighting is just empty dreams.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I should deem a man-of-war incomplete without a body of Marines...imbued with that esprit that has so long characterized the "Old Corps."

— Joshua R. Sands

I never imagined working with CEOs, congressmen or the military, yet I make regular visits to the Pentagon, stop by the Capitol…

— Simon Sinek

If we look at the Gulf War, the same is also true. Indeed, my work on the logistics of perception and the…

— Paul Virilio