Military Quotes · Page 58

There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself.

— H. L. Mencken

I went through a period when I did military roles and played basically someone who was unfit for military service.

— Michael O'Keefe

If you don’t have a good idea of what to do next after using military force, then don’t use it in the…

— Ted Lieu

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

— Ronald Reagan

“And in that vast emptiness, two heads bobbed above the surface without a sound, just one hundred feet from them.”

— Michael Parker

All military history records the triumphs of discipline and courage far more frequently than numbers and resources.

— Robert E. Lee

“They Served ...reliving memories that will not die giving their all for you and I - friends taken lives shaken...”

— Muse

We've got to strengthen our military long-term. We don't know what the world is going to throw at us down the road.

— Mitt Romney

The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments,…

— Joseph Rotblat

We won with the military. We won with highly educated, pretty well educated and poorly educated. But we won with everything, tall…

— Donald Trump

Bin Laden is remarkably eager for Americans to know why he doesn't like us, what he intends to do about it and…

— Michael Scheuer

With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a…

— Gunther Blumentritt

Neither the military might nor the economic and technological development makes a nation great. It is made great by it's citizens with…

— Pandurang Shastri Athavale

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

This is something else that is drilled into us in the military: Make sure you know who your replacement is, in case…

— Colin Powell

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

— Bruce Jackson

The Chinese military budget today is officially listed as, I think, about $15 billion. But even if you double it, that's only…

— Henry A. Kissinger

The pre-war empire had been sufficiently informal and sufficiently cheap for Parliament to claim authority over it without having to concern itself…

— Linda Colley

At home and abroad, military men and women are showing purpose and dedication in defending American ideas. They are performing in our…

— Melvin Laird

Your good mother tells me you are feeling very badly in your new situation. Allow me to assure you it is a…

— Abraham Lincoln

In any problem where an opposing force exists and cannot be regulated, one must foresee and provide for alternative courses. Adaptability is…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are…

— Ernest K. Gann

Being an American journalist can put people on the defensive. In countries where people assume the press is partisan, like in Lebanon,…

— Annia Ciezadlo

“Honestly, I had no idea how to respond. My senior year of college I’d taken a seminar titled Public Education: Situations and…

— Tucker Elliot

There are many indicators of advanced civilisations, but unthinking hero worship of the military isn't one of them.

— Frankie Boyle

Why in hell can't the Army do it if the Marines can. They are the same kind of men; why can't they…

— John J. Pershing

Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.

— Theodore L. Cuyler

A soldier doesn't fight because he hates the enemy in front of him, he fights because he loves what he left behind.

— Mario Tomasello

I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.

— Wilhelm Keitel

Do not forget your dogs of war, your big guns, which are the most-to-be respected arguments of the rights of kings.

— Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

The World War demonstrated the importance of Field Artillery. The majority of casualties were inflicted by the arm.

— John J. Pershing

Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth.

— Mao Zedong

We're going to rebuild our military. Our military is depleted. Our military is frankly, our military is in trouble.

— Donald Trump

The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.

— William Westmoreland

“The first gang members who joined the military were known as the Hounds, a group of former New York gang members.”

— Carter F. Smith

Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy...

— Abraham Lincoln

The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

— George Bernard Shaw

I think I have a repressed bent for the military, I like discipline without question, specific schedules and duties.

— Anne Desclos

Either I will come back after hoisting the Tricolor, or I will come back wrapped in it, but I will be back…

— Vikram Batra

We ask the military to be in a position that, if we ask them to do a task, they are absolutely able…

— Philip Hammond