I love the military, of course, but it wasn't my thing. Sports was my thing. — Kevin Knox Copy Share Image
I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation building. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Military glory - that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Only a foolish woman would allow her man to earn his living as a moving target. — David Hackworth Copy Share Image
Retreat, hell! We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction. — Oliver P. Smith Copy Share Image
The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it. — Louis Simpson Copy Share Image
Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its… — Martin Van Creveld Copy Share Image
I told you about the jet fighters. Well it's like that with so many other things. So we are going to take… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“Africa must remain on the path of democracy. But democracy MUST also remain about the PEOPLE, not about power” — Fela Durotoye Copy Share Image
We all know that in war the political and military factors have to complement each other. — Nguyen Cao Ky Copy Share Image
Air power alone does not guarantee America's security, but I believe it best exploits the nation's greatest asset - our technical skill. — Hoyt Vandenberg Copy Share Image
I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It's an attitude… — Edgar Ramirez Copy Share Image
To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they… — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
...Local prohibitions cannot block advances in military and commercial technology... Democratic movements for local restraint can only restrain the world's democracies, not… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand… — John Abizaid Copy Share Image
My parents got divorced and military school gave me a structure. A lot of kids my age were children of divorced parents.… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
There cannot be any better cross-section of America and I think the soldiers represent the best we have. Today's soldiers are brighter… — Gerald Griffin Copy Share Image
I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For… — Eamon de Valera Copy Share Image
In short, absolute, so-called mathematical, factors never find a firm basis in military calculations. From the very start, there is an interplay… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Contrary to received wisdom, the British are not an insular people in the conventional sense - far from it. For most of… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
In the minds of many Western politicians, military interventions and air strikes appear to have become legitimate policy tools since the NATO… — Vladimir Yakunin Copy Share Image
Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
I am sorry to be so blunt, but I do not see much ambiguity here. [Barack] Obama was late to affirm the… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Sir, what can be said of these things? Is it the arm of the flesh that hath done these things? Is it… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image