Military Quotes · Page 78

I believe America will always win the war. It's a superpower that no one can challenge. The real challenge is for the…

— Christiane Amanpour

The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils…

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

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

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

“Africa must remain on the path of democracy. But democracy MUST also remain about the PEOPLE, not about power”

— Fela Durotoye

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.

— Louis Simpson

Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country?

— Ted Cruz

I still wanted to get into the NBA. I was still on the team, I was a starting point guard and I…

— Ryan Montgomery

Since the events of September 11, we've rightfully changed our military strategy so we're now taking the fight to those individuals who…

— Jim Gerlach

The first and absolute requirement of strategic air power in this war was control of the air in order to carry out…

— Carl Andrew Spaatz

“My family says they are proud of me. Of course, I would rather hear this than the contrary, but I cannot say…

— Jake Wood

The demands of leadership have changed. The highest levels if leadership require mastery of a new task: job creation. Traditional leadership through…

— Jim Clifton

I have always considered Saipan the decisive battle of the Pacific offensive...(it was) the naval and military heart and brain of the…

— Holland Smith

The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

We buy products for our military and they come in at costs that are so far above what they were supposed to…

— Donald Trump

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

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

Instead of concentrating on the war against poverty, global attention is focused on another kind of slaughter - on something that is…

— Muhammad Yunus

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

— Tulsi Gabbard

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

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

“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

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

— Thomas Jefferson

Retreat, hell! We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction.

— Oliver P. Smith

U.S. power flows from our unmatched military might, yes. But in a deeper way, it's a product of the dominance of the…

— David Ignatius

It's important. One of the principles in the United States is civilian control of the military.

— Wesley Clark

I grew up hunting and fishing, as did my family. But then I served in the military.

— Ralph Northam

I don't think that we're necessarily going to see the U.S. and Russia becoming out and out military competitors against each other.

— Kimberly Zisk Marten

Today, we are not likely to need to organize local militias for our defense now we have something called the Pentagon.

— Peter Bergen

The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over…

— Chuck Yeager

The president and I sat down in the Oval Office, and he expressed very clearly that what he wants from me is…

— David Petraeus

The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot…

— Confucius

Sometimes it takes the pain of a Deployment to realize how we take the little things for granted and how much we…

— Anonymous

“It’d been a long time since they’d been together, but as close as they were physically, they’d never been so far apart…

— Jennifer Faye

(The) chain of command has failed over the years, obviously, for a lot of reasons.

— Chuck Hagel

A draft doesn't produce the people we need to satisfy our real manpower shortage. We need specialists to keep our jets flying.

— Patricia Schroeder

History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse.

— Eric Alterman

All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.

— Amar Bose

The American military will never lose the war in Iraqif lost, it will be lost by a lack of political will.

— Joe Lieberman