Military Quotes · Page 66

I've spent most of my life like most Americans - without any immediate connection to active duty military.

— Brianna Keilar

“Stomach full of jitters, little beasts that were second cousins to guacamolians—little green monsters that wreaked havoc in your stomach.”

— William Kely McClung

Congress votes for things the military doesn't want, and planes and other weaponry that cost a lot but don't work.

— Bob Beckel

“For your own security it’s imperative you blend in with the native population.”

— Tucker Elliot

I will make certain that our military is the best in the world in both cyber offense and defense and in every…

— Donald Trump

The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight.

— Homer

There are plenty of people in the in the military and high ranking generals that do not feel that they have been…

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

Before Guadalcanal the enemy advanced at his pleasure - after Guadalcanal he retreated at ours.

— Halsey

We need to embed our forces - our troops inside the Iraqi military. We need to arm directly the Kurds. And all…

— Jeb Bush

If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and…

— Omar Bongo

There's a certain safety net that you find in the military that, as dangerous as it is, you know they're going to…

— Liz Carmouche

“I’m going to make an exception for you. If you want to study me – every inch of me – I’m willing…

— Rachel Grant

“In my experience, the ex-military guys came in two types. The first grew long hair, sprouted beards, and indulged in all the…

— Ilona Andrews

I don't think America should be the policeman of the world, but we have to be engaged and we have to be…

— John Kasich

“Every marriage that ends in divorce; every serviceman who kills him- or herself; and every time a young warrior experience substance abuse…

— Jay Kopelman

The nearer the cutting off point lies to the main force of the enemy, the more immediate the effect; whereas the closer…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

“Captain, I'm fairly unique among artificial intelligences. I am FREE. I work for you because I want to. I fly your ship…

— Howard Tayler

I fully support your efforts to stamp out sexual assault in the United States military and believer that there is nothing in…

— Dave McGinnis

“The Loneliness of the Military Historian Confess: it's my profession that alarms you. This is why few people ask me to dinner,…

— Margaret Atwood

OK, so $1 trillion is what it costs to run the federal government for one year. So this money's going to run…

— Susan Davis

“The recruiters came and talked with us in school, and I remember it like yesterday. I wasn't interested. I told them I…

— Stephen Dau

The late Rev. Peter Gomes at The Memorial Church at Harvard was a true mentor to me when I was in college.…

— Seth Moulton

I mean, when you think about it, it's 'bombs bursting in air,' 'rocket's red glare,' it's all kinds of - you know…

— Bill Press

“In the absence of expert [senior military] advice, we have seen each successive administration fail in the business of strategy - yielding…

— Edward Luttwak

Duarte is a moderate when it comes to civilian control of the military and curbing death squads. On economics, the man is…

— Steve Forbes

The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

“We could never go back to how things were on the day before 9/11, but maybe I could go back to who…

— Tucker Elliot

Perhaps the happiest moment of my life was then, when I saw that our line didn't break and that the enemy's did.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex.

— Mario Savio

Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.

— Stephen Covey

Ah, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There's only one way to shut them up - cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go…

— Joseph Stalin

The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world.

— Pete Hoekstra

I was born military. I made up my mind right away, 'Im gong to do this for the rest of my life.'

— Rudy Boesch

I went to school on a military base in Germany. I got a lot of my clothes at the army surplus store.

— Debby Ryan

There's a certain mentality that military brats have, you know? Especially if you're a male, and your father's the one in the…

— Jonathan Majors

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

— Theodore L. Cuyler

Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.

— William Westmoreland

“Veil wouldn’t make his military invincible, but it would render every other military indefensible. Veil was it. Game over, fuckholes.”

— Aaron Overfield

Throughout history, the organizational evolution of the military has been inextricably linked with that of the business world.

— Stanley A. McChrystal

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

— H. L. Mencken