Military Quotes · Page 57

The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and…

— Charles Dickens

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

— Walter Bagehot

In many situations that seemed desperate, the artillery has been a most vital factor.

— Douglas MacArthur

Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.

— Anonymous

As far as Zarqawi is concerned, there is a network of extremists; it's not just Zarqawi.

— John Abizaid

Anyone that puts their life at risk to protect our freedom is a HERO in my book. Thanks for your bravery and…

— Sonya Parker

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

— Andrew Carnegie

We have a very large military community - veterans and others - who basically do believe in the militarism.

— Julianne Malveaux

Archaeologists gave the military the idea to use aerial photographs for spying and field survey. We are fortunate that the spatial and…

— Sarah Parcak

Democrats see our voluntary military supported by taxpayer dollars as their personal Salvation Army. Self-interested behavior, such as deploying troops to serve…

— Ann Coulter

Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage,- a personage less…

— Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad…

— Tom Hanks

The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it…

— Daniel Berrigan

In 2003, Congress should have resisted the rush to a war of choice with Iraq. I will do everything in my power…

— John Garamendi

“We all lose people. We all have to live in the aftermath. It’s how we move forward that counts, but sometimes we…

— Tucker Elliot

I'm going to fight my way out, I'm going to take all my equipment and all my wounded and as many dead…

— Oliver P. Smith

The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a…

— Chris Hedges

The president Donald Trump, unlike previous administrations, has made a real commitment. That is the denuclearization of the peninsula is the mandate.…

— Mike Pompeo

Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with…

— James F. Cooper

I can think about what [Mahatma] Gandhi said or [Martin Luther] King said about violence begetting violence, and still be true to…

— Barack Obama

We owe an enormous debt of gratitude to those who serve or have served in our countrys military, as well as to…

— Sylvia Mathews Burwell

We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die…

— Eric Hoffer

I think we have to be active in teaching our children, and teaching each other. We have to be active about kindness…

— Dave Matthews

“Further, any way of life based on the importation of resources is also functionally based on violence, because if your way of…

— Aric McBay

I have in mind repeated statements by Japanese military men containing threats against other states.

— Joseph Stalin

Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made…

— Rupert Brooke

I used to have a military officer travelling with me at all times with a suitcase - referred to as the nuclear…

— Al Gore

I do think we need for a troop to be able to house his family. That's an important part of building morale…

— George W. Bush

“I miss it: the smell of sand, sweat, and gunpowder, rings of salt from dried sweat on my pants’ legs, and around…

— Adam Fenner

It is always more difficult to fight successfully against Faith than against knowledge.

— Adolf Hitler

The governments and the hard-headed military establishment and the general conservative part of America have never taken much interest in democracy, anyway.

— Amartya Sen

I don't underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

— Ulysses S. Grant

The Marine Corps is proud of the fact that it is a force of combined arms, and it jealously guards the integrity…

— Keith B. McCutcheon

Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.

— Benazir Bhutto

The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral…

— David Ben-Gurion

As the excited passions of hostile people are of themselves a powerful enemy, both the general and his government should use their…

— Antoine-Henri Jomini

Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs -to…

— Thomas S. Power

A military life had no charms for me, and I had not the faintest idea of staying in the army even if…

— Ulysses S. Grant

Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.

— Vladimir Putin

These mercenaries and hirelings kidnapped civilians in the Al-Faw Peninsula so that they might claim that they captured Iraqi soldiers.

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf