Military Quotes · Page 78

Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.

— Richard M. Nixon

The more a country makes military weapons, the more insecure it becomes: if you have weapons, you become a target for attack.

— Albert Einstein

Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.

— John Hodgman

“During the war some of the country’s sharpest minds had looked as if they had been dragged through a hedge backwards.”

— Sara Sheridan

The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over today and…

— Yakubu Gowon

“One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.”

— Robert Jordan

Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.

— Winston Churchill

We have severely underestimated the Russians, the extent of the country and the treachery of the climate. This is the revenge of…

— Heinz Guderian

[With] military threats, you can see them actually, you can imagine it. People don't think about it enough. But if you think…

— Noam Chomsky

The fact is that you literally, by definition, cannot have a Jewish state and a democratic state and have a whole bunch…

— John F. Kerry

In conflict zones in particular, we need personnel who wear the badge of the United States, are a part of our official…

— Jan Schakowsky

Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these…

— Ed Wood

No one in my family ever had joined the military at all, and how I first got introduced to the military was…

— Wes Moore

We have the new greatest generation. We don't need as large a military due to the technology we have, the equipment we…

— Joe Wilson

The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle…

— Kevin Powers

Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody.…

— Jon Meacham

Do you know how I feel about that? I'm sure this is no big surprise... what a mistake. I should never have…

— Harry Reid

I think it's more likely that we can make positive changes happen on environment and military issues if states begin to secede.…

— David Swanson

The Bush administration has created an unimaginable catastrophe in Iraq. This should've been one of the easiest military occupations in history and…

— Noam Chomsky

In a sense, the better you adapt to school the less your chances are of later adapting to the actual world. So…

— Philip K. Dick

European peace movement felt that the deployment of these missiles on European soil, on German soil would be a very great danger…

— Petra Kelly

There is no battle space the U.S. Military cannot access. They said we couldn't do Afghanistan. We did it with ease. They…

— Thomas P.M. Barnett

Well, human rights defenders, freedom of speech advocates, lawyers that we spoke to said this is really an expansion. After the military…

— Leila Fadel

Why do people like America? They say, well, you have the largest military in the world. Because you have more people, et…

— Joe Biden

I have great respect and understanding for military commitment due to my own family's involvement with the armed forces.

— Carolyn Murphy

The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.

— Noam Chomsky

Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.

— Jalal Talabani

“All right. They’re on our left. They’re on our right. They’re in front of us, they’re behind us. They can’t get away…

— Jeff Shaara quoting Colonel Puller

This was no ordinary UFO. Scores of people saw it. It was no illusion, no deception, no imagination.

— Azim Daudpota

Many in the American military have learned the fundamental dilemma of modern warfare: More money and better weapons don't mean that you…

— Gabriel Kolko

The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to…

— Michael Howard

Courage! Do not fall back; in a little the place will be yours. Watch! When the wind blows my banner against the…

— Joan of Arc

I can't say enough about the tremendous work the Missouri National Guard has done as part of our military efforts in Afghanistan,…

— Jay Nixon

The Baltic countries are sovereign nations. They have the right to decide which military and political bloc they want to be a…

— Sergei Ivanov

I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not…

— John F. Kerry

Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.

— Barry Goldwater

I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a…

— Ashleigh Banfield

In the military, as in any organization, giving the order might be the easiest part. Execution is the real game.

— Russel Honore

Veteran causes are an extremely important issue, especially the transition from military to civilian life.

— Brandon Webb

I always believe in being prepared, even when I'm dressed in white tie and tails.

— George S. Patton