Military Quotes · Page 63

I was the only outsider to visit the Abbottabad compound where bin Laden lived before the Pakistani military demolished it.

— Peter Bergen

Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.

— Sun Tzu

So as through a glass, and darkly - The age long strife I see - Where I fought in many guises, -…

— George S. Patton

Peace through strength works. We've got the greatest military in the world. I want them to dominate any potential conflict.

— Bobby Jindal

There's always a balance, I think, any administration has to find in not just the military but in any agency of government.

— Chuck Hagel

America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.

— Lincoln Chafee

It is not possible . . . to concentrate enough military planes with military loads over a modern city to destroy that city.

— John Thomason

“Let’s not forget—we already have a highly ranked officer secretly working for us at Patch Barracks, V Corps headquarters.”

— Karl Braungart

The great powers of the world may have done wonders in giving the world an industrial and military look but the great…

— Steven Biko

It is thus more potent, as well as more economical, to disarm the enemy than to attempt his destruction by hard fighting…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

In Europe, Socialism is just another political party. It just means that government takes over certain things like hospitals, prisons, military and…

— Bill Maher

Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials,…

— Linda Chavez

The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their…

— Edward Abbey

In Burma, our main goal in amending the constitution is not to phase out the military from politics. Our main point is…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

“The boy registered them but didn’t answer, already turned inward. He was counting backward from a thousand in multiples of four while…

— William Kely McClung

I was a Air Force kid. I got out of high school and I decided to join the military. I traveled and…

— Donnis

In the meantime, what is lost is any sense that the Palestinian resistance to Israeli colonial rule is waged from a situation…

— Judith Butler

From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home,…

— George McGovern

I feel very strongly that history is about everything. It isn't just about politics or the military or social issues. If art,…

— David McCullough

Let's say somebody were [in the White House] and they wanted to destroy this nation. I would create division among the people,…

— Benjamin Carson

Every time we have come to the end of a conflict, somehow we have persuaded ourselves that the nature of mankind and…

— Robert M. Gates

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

In France those absurd perversions of the art of war which covered themselves under the name of chivalry were more omnipotent than…

— Charles William Chadwick Oman

A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense; and it has always been of defense…

— Woodrow Wilson

People think of the military as being about guns and fighting wars, but it's really about service to country and community.

— Austin Stowell

I've seen incredible acts of humanity in the military because people put themselves aside, and it's about the other person.

— Adam Driver

In the military, I learned that ‘leadership’ means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments,

— Tulsi Gabbard

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

For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.

— B. H. Liddell Hart

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam…

— Charles de Gaulle

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

Sometimes it takes the pain of a Deployment to realize how we take the little things for granted and how much we…

— Anonymous

Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even…

— Joseph Goebbels

Actually, I have a lot of hobbies, but I've kept up with model-building the longest. In particular, I love military models.

— Akira Toriyama

The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot…

— Confucius

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Latin America moved decisively away from military rule and toward civilian democracy.

— Stephen Kinzer

I've always had the idea that we were conducting a military operation. It always seemed to me to be in a state…

— Lincoln Kirstein

I cannot approve of your method of operation, you proceed like a bewildered idiot, taking not the least notice of my orders.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Once the war against Saddam begins, we expect every American to support our military, and if they can't do that, to shut…

— Bill O'Reilly

The Canadian Prime Minister said Canada would lend the U.S. its full military support. You know what that means: Both tanks.

— Jay Leno