Military Quotes · Page 71

But as we move from this period of what many Iraqis regard as perceived occupation, we need to move towards one of…

— John Abizaid

This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The military said we'll be able to confirm Saddam is dead with DNA testing. Apparently we have a sample of his DNA.…

— Jay Leno

With regard to military discipline, I may safely say that no such thing existed in the Continental Army.

— Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.

— B. H. Liddell Hart

North Carolina, particularly the 8th District, has long played a key role in our Nation's military forces.

— Robin Hayes

The military is diverse and large, and it's public: it serves a public function; it serves a public duty.

— Chelsea Manning

“I talked with the admiral’s staff. Military personnel are the worst, no disrespect intended. They clam up tighter than a bullfrog’s ass.”

— Feather Stone

I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world…

— Robert Kagan

Americans tended to think of war as something that had to be done from time to time, for a particular purpose or…

— David Hackett Fischer

President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: 'I will undertake…

— Elliott Abrams

Our profession is built on the bedrock of trust - the trust that must inherently exist among Soldiers, and between Soldiers and…

— Raymond T. Odierno

But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to…

— John Abizaid

Without a clear picture of where the military's covert forces are operating and what they are doing, Americans may not even recognize…

— Nick Turse

The military taught me the importance of getting something done in a timely manner and the importance of completing a mission on…

— Don Young

The White House has now released military documents that they say prove George Bush met his requirements for the National Guard. Big…

— Jay Leno

American imperialism has suffered a stunning defeat in Indochina. But the same forces are engaged In another war against a much less…

— Noam Chomsky

In the old days it would have been a relatively simple matter to have checked Hitler's territorial ambitions. All you'd have needed…

— Niall Ferguson

“Sometimes time can play tricks. One moment it idles by, an hour can seem a lifetime, such as when sitting by the…

— M.A. Lossl

THE LONG WALK is a raw, wrenching, blood-soaked chronicle of the human cost of war. Brian Castner, the leader of a military…

— Jon Krakauer

Military technologies such as Drones, SWAT vehicles and machine-gun-equipped armored trucks once used exclusively in high-intensity war zones such as Iraq and…

— Henry Giroux

We are at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to…

— Ronald Reagan

Conservative and liberal politicians alike now spend millions waging wars around the globe, funding the largest military state in the world, providing…

— Henry Giroux

I've always had the fantasy of doing a boot camp for a military film, at some point. I've always wanted to know…

— Seth Gabel

We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general.

— Winston Churchill

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

— Ulysses S. Grant

If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.

— Rachel Maddow

Under Saddam Hussein, the nation of Iraq possessed and used chemical weapons against both their own Kurdish population and Iranian military forces.

— Charles B. Rangel

This president [Barack Obama] is undermining our military. This president is more interested in funding Planned Parenthood than in funding the military.

— Marco Rubio

“Ceasefire only postpones war, What’s needed is demilitarization. Till borderly apes wake apart national pride, Democracy only sustains a paradigm of poison.”

— Abhijit Naskar

The best way to create cost overruns in any military acquisition is to change course midstream. That is exactly what Donald Trump…

— P. W. Singer

They say "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." In the Marine Corps, you can make…

— Fred Larson

I worked at Military Media, an advertising agency for military-base newspapers. Don't ask, I won't tell.

— Judy Gold

“I gave my heart away to somebody long time ago- when I was barely a man. And I never got it back.”

— Jalpa Williby

Corporate principles and military principles are basically the same. Insulation. Illusion. Hype. Activity.

— Tarun J. Tejpal

'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our…

— Hillary Clinton

As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

When it comes to security, when it comes to ISIS, when it comes to the military, every single category I'm leading, like,…

— Donald Trump

There is only one sort of discipline - PERFECT DISCIPLINE. Men cannot have good battle discipline and poor administrative discipline.

— George S. Patton

I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it.

— Jay London