Military Quotes · Page 84

In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to…

— Linda Chavez

After living on the edge, the adrenalin, some people in the military get addicted. Anything else seem boring. They have to have…

— Timothy McVeigh

We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and…

— Chester W. Nimitz

I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world.

— Winston Churchill

Any incident could instantly blow up. Both sides [USA and Russia] are modernizing and increasing their military systems, including nuclear systems.

— Noam Chomsky

I will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.

— Mitt Romney

Understandably, the electorate places great faith in the professional soldiers and strategists that run our military.

— Clive Lewis

Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.

— Orson Scott Card

Truth and reason are eternal. They have prevailed. And they will eternally prevail; however, in times and places they may be overborne…

— Thomas Jefferson

The only way to meet pressing social needs and be fiscally responsible is to cut the runaway Pentagon budget, which now almost…

— Dennis Kucinich

Sacrifice is the 1.3 million active duty men and women in the U.S. military and 800,000 reserve forces who volunteer to keep…

— S.E. Cupp

The veterans of our military services have put their lives on the line to protect the freedoms that we enjoy. They have…

— Judd Gregg

The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to…

— Richard Armitage

Geeks run the world. Condoleezza Rice is a geek, Bill Gates is clearly a geek, many of the big filmmakers and writers…

— China Mieville

The reality is that the United States military alone cannot be all things to all nations. We will sharpen the application of…

— Leon Panetta

America's military is second to none in the world. We're blessed with terrific soldiers, and extraordinary technology and intelligence. But the idea…

— Mitt Romney

Florence Nightingale was an amazing figure. She created the American Red Cross. She saw the suffering from bad health conditions on the…

— Sharon Lawrence

Politicians had always viewed environmental issues as narrow things of no great political consequence. Sort of NIMBY issues. A big part of…

— Denis Hayes

“Where are your free and compulsory schools? Does every one know how to read in the land of Dante and of Michael…

— Victor Hugo

I offer a better way for America with ideas that actually work, a reformed tax code that rewards free enterprise instead of…

— Paul Ryan

Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon…

— David Berlinski

The enduring responsibility of the United States Air Force is to provide strategic deterrence for the Nation and fly, fight and win…

— Norton A. Schwartz

Everyone is now considered a potential terrorist, providing a rational for both the government and private corporations to spy on anybody, regardless…

— Henry Giroux

Citizens ... should be practitioners of civic virtue in their conduct toward government. They should be ever willing to fulfill the duties…

— Dallin H. Oaks

A soldier doesn't fight because he hates the enemy in front of him, he fights because he loves what he left behind.

— Mario Tomasello

We have to be concerned that Russia is also increasing its military influence in Egypt, potentially in Libya, also in Afghanistan.

— Kimberly Zisk Marten

The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits

— Anonymous

If Boeing got a big head start on the 707 from multibillion-dollar military contracts to develop an air force transport, is that…

— Robert Kuttner

No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy…

— Winston Churchill

I do not recall to [Kim Jong-un], but it was complex. "Dear young leader of the people and chairman of the joint…

— Werner Herzog

The men with stars on their shoulders supporting gays serving in the military is going to have a profound impact.

— Norah O'Donnell

I've seen incredible acts of humanity in the military because people put themselves aside, and it's about the other person.

— Adam Driver

Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first.

— Noam Chomsky

We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained.

— Joschka Fischer

Even limited military actions end up carrying with them great costs and unintended consequences.

— Barack Obama

There isn't any air power in the world that can take care of the problem of sectarian divisions.

— Bob Menendez

Why in hell can't the Army do it if the Marines can. They are the same kind of men; why can't they…

— John J. Pershing

One year of the world’s military spending equals 700 years of the U.N. budget and equals 2,928 years of the U.N. budget…

— Zainab Salbi

Mistaking Palestinian military weakness for moral innocence seems to further amplify the inattention of journalists to the culture of lies.

— Ilana Mercer

I think there has to be greater heed paid by the Security Council members to military advice.

— Alex Morrison