Military Quotes · Page 59

When you get out of the military, all you are doing is a work-up for the longest deployment of your life.

— Dakota Meyer

I always wanted to go into the military or something like that - my whole family, all my friends are either Air…

— RJ Mitte

Declarations of war have never been a constitutional requirement for military action abroad.

— John Yoo

Make the land of Islam a burning fire that burns their faces and feet wherever they pass

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

To avoid a military conflict, Saddam Hussein has no other choice than to leave the country.

— Ari Fleischer

A military leader would never hand over his tactics and intelligence to the enemy on a silver platter, and neither should we.

— Anna Paulina Luna

In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

— Voltaire

Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs.

— Douglas Feith

We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility…

— Bob Graham

Scores of Iraqi exiles met in London to discuss ways to overthrow Saddam Hussein in a grand gathering dubbed the 'Iraqi Military…

— Jon Stewart

The United States must not adopt the tactics of the enemy. Means are important, as ends. Crisis makes it tempting to ignore…

— Frank Church

I can walk into a gun store in my town and buy military-grade weapons. You'd be shocked by the amount of firepower…

— Jonathan Gottschall

Following is one of the most underrated aspects of leadership… I have seen many a good [military unit] underachieve, because someone...thought the…

— William H. McRaven

The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has…

— Martin Van Buren

The war was declared over - the end of major combat operations - in May 2003. Release procedures got under way immediately;…

— Janis Karpinski

This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be…

— Adolf Hitler

Of all the statist violations of individual rights in a mixed economy, the military draft is the worst. It is an abrogation…

— Ayn Rand

Tayyip Erdogan wants to go beyond George W. Bush by making critical journalism and critics in the academy illegal. What will be…

— Tariq Ali

My father had been in the military and he was a weapons specialist, so he had an affinity for weapons but also…

— Lupe Fiasco

I was out there meeting with a lot of working moms and whenever I would gather a group of women, there was…

— Michelle Obama

To my everlasting relief, he’d also stopped with the starch a few years back . The military made him big on spray…

— Lilith Saintcrow

Look what happened with regard to our invasion into Afghanistan, how we apparently intentionally let bin Laden get away. That was done…

— Maurice Hinchey

The principle of compulsory service, embodied in the system of conscription, lias been the means by which modem dictators and military gangs…

— Anonymous

The War of the Roses in England and the Civil War in America were both intestinal conflicts arising out of similar ideas.…

— J. F. C. Fuller

That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.

— D.J. Cotrona

The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.

— Anatole France

How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? ... The end of living and the beginning of survival.

— Chief Seattle

Victory breeds hatred; the defeated live in pain. The peaceful live happily, giving up victory and defeat.

— Gautama Buddha

I do not think witchcraft is a religion, and I do not think it is in any way appropriate for the US…

— George W. Bush

Everyone could face something that hurts him. But I don't expect that I will be hurt

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

In time, the church will actually be organized more as a military force with an army, navy, air force, etc.

— Rick Joyner

Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.

— George S. Patton

A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Poor people have poor options. Chavez found the Army almost by accident, and had found it a true open of security and…

— Tom Clancy

You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The United States faces no serious military threats today, yet is constantly at war.

— Doug Bandow

Joining the military is not to be taken lightly. You're putting every part of yourself at risk, not just your body but…

— Kevin Powers

There is nothing like a parade to elicit the proper respect for the military from the populace.

— Irving Kristol

“I’ve never actually seen the military used to any higher moral purpose. There is always the bottom line, somewhere, somehow.”

— Stan Goff

“A military leader thinks about casualties and losses, but a strategic one only aims the win.”

— M.F. Moonzajer