Military Quotes · Page 66

“I talked with the admiral’s staff. Military personnel are the worst, no disrespect intended. They clam up tighter than a bullfrog’s ass.”

— Feather Stone

We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general.

— Winston Churchill

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

— Ulysses S. Grant

If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.

— Rachel Maddow

This president [Barack Obama] is undermining our military. This president is more interested in funding Planned Parenthood than in funding the military.

— Marco Rubio

Under Saddam Hussein, the nation of Iraq possessed and used chemical weapons against both their own Kurdish population and Iranian military forces.

— Charles B. Rangel

With regard to military discipline, I may safely say that no such thing existed in the Continental Army.

— Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

The military said we'll be able to confirm Saddam is dead with DNA testing. Apparently we have a sample of his DNA.…

— Jay Leno

My administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens. Indeed, I believe that doing so would break…

— Barack Obama

I have made no secret, either privately or publicly, of any sense of outrage over officially enforced military and war service. I…

— Albert Einstein

The [next] priority for change the first element of a new politics for the United States is in our policy toward the…

— Robert Kennedy

The wisdom and spirit of Churchill not only saved Britain from the Third Reich but saved Western civilization from a Nazi Dark…

— Victor Davis Hanson

I am concerned that many young people in the Hemisphere seem to envision the United States as a nation intoxicated by power,…

— Luis A. Ferre

You could be a Green Beret and a kid could jump out from behind a building and hit you with a rock.…

— Ice T

I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said 'There's no military solution to terrorism.…

— Bradley Whitford

I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a…

— John Abizaid

Civil libertarian activists are found overwhelmingly on the left. Their right-wing brethren have been concerned with issues more important than civil rights,…

— Michael Lind

Economic and military power can be developed under the spur of laws and appropriations. But moral power does not derive from any…

— John Foster Dulles

It makes no sense for us to consider going back there and getting involved in what truly is a religious civil war.…

— Tulsi Gabbard

Throughout the twentieth century and into the beginning of the twenty-first, the United States repeatedly used its military power, and that of…

— Stephen Kinzer

The relationship between officers and men should in no sense be that of superior and inferior, nor that of master and servant,…

— John A. Lejeune

The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Always Sami. I was tethered to her somehow. To that scared little girl I’d found on the staircase nearly a year earlier;…

— Tucker Elliot

Take a look at the Supreme Court decision that just authorized an effort by U.S. claimants against Iran for terrorist acts. What…

— Noam Chomsky

This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

But as we move from this period of what many Iraqis regard as perceived occupation, we need to move towards one of…

— John Abizaid

I did 22 years in the military. I went through Paris Island. I'm a Marine. I will never not be one.

— Montel Williams

War is a terrible trade. But when the cause is just, the smell of gunpowder is sweet.

— Myles Standish

I'll likely be married to the soldier mob for better and for worse to live and to die.

— Charles XII of Sweden

[Every age], however destitute of science or virtue, sufficiently abounds with acts of blood and military renown.

— Edward Gibbon

We increased expenses, particularly in two areas: the military. If I put somebody in harm's way, they're going to get the best,…

— George W. Bush

North Carolina, particularly the 8th District, has long played a key role in our Nation's military forces.

— Robin Hayes

The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.

— B. H. Liddell Hart

The military is diverse and large, and it's public: it serves a public function; it serves a public duty.

— Chelsea Manning

The leading members of ISIS were either tortured in US military prisons or in the prisons of the Shi'a government which the…

— Yanar Mohammed

Anytime it was advertised that I was going to be at a particular place, the radicals would be there, the cameras with…

— William Westmoreland

“...it has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre...”

— Robert Harris

There will be no withdrawal without written orders and these orders shall never be issued.

— Sam Manekshaw

The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils.

— Lord Mountbatten

When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.

— Epitaph Of Leonard P Matlovich