The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Nothing matures a military force quicker than actual military operations. — Duncan Hunter Copy Share Image
There hasn't been a military force like the United States of America in the history of the world. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets of the Assad regime. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man! — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
We have an authorization to use military force against terrorists. We passed it after 9/11. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
We should be more modest in our belief that we can impose democracy on a country through military force. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
For me, Sun Tzu's statement that military force is based upon deception is an extraordinary statement. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
(President Nixon,) in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as "commander-in-chief", to use military forces to keep himself… — Carl T. Rowan Copy Share Image
If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
We believe half-instinctively that evil always defeats itself in the long run. Pacifism is founded largely on this belief. Don't resist evil,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
So a military force has no constant formation, water has no constant shape: the ability to gain victory by changing and adapting… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Voting against the resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq was one of my proudest moments as a senator. It… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
The demands of leadership have changed. The highest levels if leadership require mastery of a new task: job creation. Traditional leadership through… — Jim Clifton Copy Share Image
America has the strongest, best-trained, best-led military force in the world, and we have failed them. Our military today is struggling in… — John McCain Copy Share Image
What nearly all suicide terrorist attacks have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw… — Robert Pape Copy Share Image
My advice is: 1. Be judicious in the use of military force. 2. When military force is required, use overwhelming force. 3.… — Steve Stivers Copy Share Image
The pre-war empire had been sufficiently informal and sufficiently cheap for Parliament to claim authority over it without having to concern itself… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
The most fundamental paradox is that if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and to use… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I'm post-cynical on this stuff. I look at the El Salvador model as the glory days: Why don't we just fund the… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
It is clear that military force and our policy of preemption are alone insufficient to make us safe. But help is on… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
...to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Over the past five decades, civilian officials have favored the use of military force over the opposition of their military counterparts. In… — Melvin A. Goodman Copy Share Image
Deterrence failed completely as a guide in setting rational limits on the size and composition of military forces, spurring an insatiable arms… — George Lee Butler Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what they're all going to face, whichever one of them becomes president on January 21st of 2009. They will… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
“Military force is another element of power. It provides a nation the capability to impose it's will on another nation through the… — John M. House Copy Share Image
America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal. — Lincoln Chafee Copy Share Image
If you don’t have a good idea of what to do next after using military force, then don’t use it in the… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
And after September the 11th, the United States Congress also granted me additional authority to use military force against al Qaeda. . . . — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Germany is too big to sit on the sidelines on world issues. Military force is not the ultima ratio it used to… — Frank-Walter Steinmeier Copy Share Image
We will build our military forces to a level that will be, I believe, stronger than ever before if I become President… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I am not a pacifist and I would back a lawful, coherent and compelling case for the use of military force by… — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image
In time, the church will actually be organized more as a military force with an army, navy, air force, etc. — Rick Joyner Copy Share Image
I think that our American people will welcome a Russian military force for peace-keeping purposes. — Sam Nunn Copy Share Image
