I don't underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail. — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
The Marine Corps is proud of the fact that it is a force of combined arms, and it jealously guards the integrity… — Keith B. McCutcheon Copy Share Image
Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
I used to have a military officer travelling with me at all times with a suitcase - referred to as the nuclear… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I do think we need for a troop to be able to house his family. That's an important part of building morale… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“I miss it: the smell of sand, sweat, and gunpowder, rings of salt from dried sweat on my pants’ legs, and around… — Adam Fenner Copy Share Image
As much as we Egyptians treasure our military, acting alone it cannot provide the legitimacy to lay the foundations for democracy. — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
I think that military, corporate, and non-political organizations are pretty much similar. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
If you live in Israel and you see the way life is there and then you go abroad and see the way… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I haven't been able to grasp the concept of putting your life on the line for whatever reason people go into the… — Anthony Mackie Copy Share Image
We need to get beyond the politics of the moment, the deficit of the hour, the military count of the day, the… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
With respect to Russia, my principal approach to Russia has been constant since I first came into office. Russia is an important… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump is speaking in Philadelphia on military matters. He's doing quite well. I want to join a little bit of this… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It… — C. Robert Kehler Copy Share Image
People have to remember that the armed forces do as democratically elected governments tell them to do. They don't arbitrarily go into… — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
If the new military elite is anything like the old one, it would, in any great crisis, tend to side with the… — Ferdinand Lundberg Copy Share Image
Today the Israeli government continues seizures of Palestinian land for settlements, military incursions into surrounding countries and denial of the right of… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
All leaders must be good communicators. But let's be clear, communications is not the same as oratory. Let me give you an… — John Baldoni Copy Share Image
“It was too late to pray, though. The sky was clear. The helicopters were gone. Too late for so many things. My… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
War Is A Racket : I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of… — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
We need, from time to time, to use military force or all of the resources at our command in order to defend… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Military metaphors are rarely exact, but sending Republicans against Democrats when the issue hangs in the balance is nearly always as futile… — Wesley Pruden Copy Share Image
America has joined forces with the Allied Powers, and what we have of blood and treasure are yours. Therefore it is that… — Charles E. Stanton Copy Share Image
These mercenaries and hirelings kidnapped civilians in the Al-Faw Peninsula so that they might claim that they captured Iraqi soldiers. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
They are still trying to bomb with artillery and rocket-propelled grenades to hit the Republican Guard who are controlling Saddam International Airport. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Some people just join the military because they need college money. Then they're idiots and college wasn't going to help. — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
A military life had no charms for me, and I had not the faintest idea of staying in the army even if… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs -to… — Thomas S. Power Copy Share Image
As the excited passions of hostile people are of themselves a powerful enemy, both the general and his government should use their… — Antoine-Henri Jomini Copy Share Image
The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
Almost every profession has an outstanding training ground. The military has West Point, music has Juilliard, and the culinary arts has The… — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that. — F. Murray Abraham Copy Share Image
I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The fight against drug trafficking is a false pretext for the United States to install military bases. — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
Former President Donald Trump freed U.S. military commanders from unsound Obama-era constraints and enabled our troops to militarily defeat the ISIS caliphate. — Bill Hagerty Copy Share Image
Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I've had marriage proposals, invitations to military balls and even a few prom offers from 18-year-old boys. — Hope Solo Copy Share Image