Military Quotes · Page 69

Our military families already sacrifice so much to serve our nation, often having to relocate every few years.

— Ruben Gallego

Germany is prepared to agree to any solemn pact of non-aggression, because she does not think of attacking but only acquiring security.

— Adolf Hitler

If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.

— Benjamin Netanyahu

“When our objectives become purely military, we’ve already lost the larger fight.”

— Alexander Freed

Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.

— Winston Churchill

War, if reason prevails, is waged to obtain a better peace than that which existed prior to the hostilities.

— Bela Kiraly

China's limited military power is for the sake of preserving national sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

— Li Zhaoxing

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

— Michael O'Keefe

The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as…

— George Orwell

['Dad's Army' show]was a military thing but also very funny, so it's kind of the two things that I experienced by being…

— Rhys Darby

it so often happens that, when men are convinced that they have to die, a desire to bear themselves well and to…

— Winston Churchill

I never imagined working with CEOs, congressmen or the military, yet I make regular visits to the Pentagon, stop by the Capitol…

— Simon Sinek

From the early 1960s to the mid-1980s - the era of military dictatorship when South Korea was rebuilding itself from a postwar…

— Kim Young-ha

Sometime ago, I teamed up with a former Marine attack helicopter pilot. We were both frustrated by biased coverage of women in…

— Paula Broadwell

I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got…

— Robert Crippen

Ronald Reagans vision of smaller government, less taxes, and a strong national defense has led to a prosperous America. As president, he…

— David Vitter

“I doubt that my sense of personal freedom is any stronger than anybody else's. I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine…

— Edward Abbey

In military terms, if you're not winning, sometimes you are losing. We've seen the Taliban and associated terrorist organizations make gains in…

— Tom Cotton

Secretary of state Colin Powell himself eloquently pointed out the many ways to get at the root of this problem... economic, diplomatic,…

— Barbara Lee

There are markets extending from Mali, Indonesia, way outside the purview of any one government which operated under civil laws, so contracts…

— David Graeber

Our Party's Songun-based revolutionary leadership, Songun-based politics, is a revolutionary mode of leadership and socialist mode of politics that gives top priority…

— Kim Jong Il

Through my time in the military and my deployments, I have recognized the importance of having a Commander in Chief who will…

— Tulsi Gabbard

If you polled the military in Afghanistan as to how many think we should be there or not, the numbers would probably…

— Michael Hastings

Apparently almost anyone can do a better job of educating children than our so-called 'educators' in the public schools. Children who are…

— Thomas Sowell

We've evolved a lot since 9/11 also, in terms of our law enforcement capabilities, our intelligence capabilities, military, counterterrorism.

— Barack Obama

On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would…

— Barbara Cook

The Iraqi people are capable of fighting to the victorious end which God wants... the blood of our martyrs will burn you!

— Saddam Hussein

The military is very constitutionalist, and I have my faith in them and in the cooler heads of the people.

— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

The world is becoming an immense military base, and that base is becoming a mental hospital the size of the world. Inside…

— Eduardo Galeano

When I served in the military, I witnessed the lack of self defense and combat training.

— Anna Paulina Luna

We need a new law that owners of SUVs (Sport Utility Vehicles) are automatically in the military reserve. Then they can go…

— Jello Biafra

Rank and file Democrats are very patriotic. They love this country and support the military.

— Dick Mountjoy

The allure of military life and its heroic promise seem indestructible, but nothing threatens the romance of war more effectively than war…

— Elizabeth Samet

While hitting one must guard ... In order to hit with effect, the enemy must be taken off his guard.

— B. H. Liddell Hart

In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.

— Bob Woodward

It seems to me that the Iraqis laid down a lot of the arms that we gave to them. So that doesn't…

— Brad Wenstrup

“I wanted that future officer to weigh decisions with a supple mind and to be comfortable with nuance and uncertainty. ”

— Craig M. Mullaney

I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.

— Winston Churchill

The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.

— Robert A. Heinlein

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

— Carl von Clausewitz