Military Quotes · Page 82

From their maneuvers and their terrific speed I am certain their flight performance was greater than any aircraft known today.

— Frank Herman Schofield

To me, there's only 5 real jobs in America: Police Officers, Teachers, Firefighters, Doctors, and the Military Service.

— Charles Barkley

I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes.

— Anonymous

Mistaking Palestinian military weakness for moral innocence seems to further amplify the inattention of journalists to the culture of lies.

— Ilana Mercer

One year of the world’s military spending equals 700 years of the U.N. budget and equals 2,928 years of the U.N. budget…

— Zainab Salbi

The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.

— Franz Grillparzer

In Critical and baffling situations, it is always best to return to first principle and simple action

— Winston Churchill

I think there has to be greater heed paid by the Security Council members to military advice.

— Alex Morrison

What nearly all suicide terrorist attacks have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw…

— Robert Pape

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I think America should amass a strategy for success, and set out the milestones. We need to help the Iraqis get their…

— Barbara Boxer

Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can…

— Alfred Nobel

A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the…

— Douglas MacArthur

I was never a member of the peace movement or a pacifist, nor was I ever carried away from a demonstration outside…

— Guido Westerwelle

There are lots of things that I will probably never experience in this life. Military combat. Being dictator of a small central…

— Michael Arrington

Men in uniform are often described as serious, strict, firm and dangerous , but I would describe him as the sweetest, most…

— Anonymous

... war reporting is still essentially the same - someone has to go there and see what is happening. You can't get…

— Marie Colvin

The anthology meets with two different kinds of reactions in living poets. They will either write toward the anthology or away from…

— Laura Riding

The most powerful military in the world cannot invade, kill or capture a network or destroy every loose weapon on the planet.…

— Joe Biden

The West is supporting, even financing the right-wing media, it is financing 'the opposition', encourages capital flight of billions of dollars, works…

— Andre Vltchek

In recent years the military has gradually been eased out of political life in Turkey. The military budget is now subject to…

— Andrew Mango

“Do you want to know what General Putnam is thinking? It’s this. He’s thinking that he can’t win the war if he…

— James Lincoln Collier

In the army we are drilled into execution and then supervision, to make sure everything goes the way you planned it. But…

— Colin Powell

When Israelis in the occupied territories now claim that they have to defend themselves, they are defending themselves in the sense that…

— Noam Chomsky

It is true that we are under occupation, but we are not the weaker party. We are the military force which Israel…

— Yasser Arafat

In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.

— Douglas MacArthur

One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.

— Henry A. Kissinger

In all their wars against the French they [the Americans] never showed such conduct, attention and perseverance as they do now.

— Thomas Gage

Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first.

— Noam Chomsky

Even limited military actions end up carrying with them great costs and unintended consequences.

— Barack Obama

We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained.

— Joschka Fischer

Why in hell can't the Army do it if the Marines can. They are the same kind of men; why can't they…

— John J. Pershing

There isn't any air power in the world that can take care of the problem of sectarian divisions.

— Bob Menendez

“The Marine Corps forced me to come home from Afghanistan. It's up to me to allow myself to come home.”

— Thomas J. Brennan

No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.

— Dick Morris

The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.

— Milton Friedman

Barack Obama's military triumphs will come neither in long wars nor even short ones, but in a series of raids.

— Elliott Abrams

Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?

— John Dryden

One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.

— Chris Kyle

It's true our military members have dedicated their lives to serving our country.

— Michael Waltz