Military Quotes · Page 70

The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

— Aaron McGruder

The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.

— Alfred Thayer Mahan

The only things those people have that you don't is guts. Do you wanna live forever?

— Merritt A. Edson

I was the only person in the world who thought it was a military duty to appear to be in a good…

— Pat Conroy

Anytime it was advertised that I was going to be at a particular place, the radicals would be there, the cameras with…

— William Westmoreland

The leading members of ISIS were either tortured in US military prisons or in the prisons of the Shi'a government which the…

— Yanar Mohammed

A lady whispers to her soldier, "You can call me rain, because all I ever did is to fall for you.."

— Anonymous

When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.

— Epitaph Of Leonard P Matlovich

In a campaign against more than one state or army, it is more fruitful to concentrate first against the weaker partner than…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

Stillertook part in the Spanish Civil WarIt is not clear what impelled him to this military gesture. Probably many factors were combined--a…

— Max Frisch

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got…

— Barack Obama

You cannot use [nuclear weapons] to target civilians; you cannot use them against military targets if they have indiscriminate effects on civilians…

— John Burroughs

Lynyrd Skynyrd is not a political band, but you know what? We believe in this country. We have a soft spot for…

— Rickey Medlocke

The President of the United States ordered me to break through the Japanese lines and proceed from Corregidor to Australia for the…

— Douglas MacArthur

I've seen videos, I've seen circumstances where men and women that have been in the military have come back and been treated…

— Colin Kaepernick

To me, a performance is a military operation; it requires so much planning, and then ripping up the plan the minute you…

— Chilly Gonzales

As these potential adversaries grow their missile programs, U.S. military facilities in Asia and the Middle East, as well as our allies,…

— Donald Trump

There was sort of a negative association with the military. Maybe growing up in the South or being in a family with…

— Stephen Colbert

I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

Any outside use of military power would at best furnish a temporary respite from the processes that we see playing out. We…

— Paul R. Pillar

I think the key anecdote in the book is when Colin [Powell] and I were discussing Iraq. Colin was upstairs in the…

— George W. Bush

“This indignation builds up an accumulation of anger over the many ways I am being reminded by the system then and now…

— Diane Chamberlain

So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform,…

— Barack Obama

[On the Internet and activism:] The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or…

— Gloria Steinem

The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils.

— Lord Mountbatten

There will be no withdrawal without written orders and these orders shall never be issued.

— Sam Manekshaw

“...it has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre...”

— Robert Harris

The purpose of the military is to close with and destroy the enemy on behalf of our national security priorities.

— Todd Wilcox

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men

— Anonymous

I got kicked out of all Gwinnett schools 'cause I got in a fight, and I had to go to military school.

— Offset

“If it was that easy, the American military would have figured it out years ago.”

— Christopher Rankin

All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip and Germans, no less than other peoples, prepare for…

— Barbara W Tuchman

Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.

— Quincy Jones

We do everything humanly possible, consistent with military necessity, taking many chances to avoid civilian casualties, at all costs.

— James Mattis

We increased expenses, particularly in two areas: the military. If I put somebody in harm's way, they're going to get the best,…

— George W. Bush

[Every age], however destitute of science or virtue, sufficiently abounds with acts of blood and military renown.

— Edward Gibbon

I'll likely be married to the soldier mob for better and for worse to live and to die.

— Charles XII of Sweden

War is a terrible trade. But when the cause is just, the smell of gunpowder is sweet.

— Myles Standish

I did 22 years in the military. I went through Paris Island. I'm a Marine. I will never not be one.

— Montel Williams