Combat Quotes
519 quotes by 412 authors
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Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning.
— David M. Shoup
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Now in war we are confronted with conditions which are strange If we accept them we will never win. Since being realistic, as in mundane…
— George S. Patton
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We are confident. We have ourselves. We know how to sacrifice. We know how to work. We know how to combat the forces that oppose…
— Cesar Chavez
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The far object of a training system is to prepare the combat officer mentally so that he can cope with the unusual and unexpected as…
— Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
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Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay for the effort…
— Charles Tilly
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If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Now, it's true that no single event makes…
— Barack Obama
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The priesthood holds consummate power. It can protect you from the plague of pornography-and it is a plague-if you are succumbing to its influence. If…
— Boyd K. Packer
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The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.
— A J Muste
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One of the best ways countries can combat poverty is to use development assistance to promote a growing private sector, in which the poor can…
— John Danilovich
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I don't think there's a military solution. If we funnel in more weapons we're just likely to see more of them turned against us by…
— Charles W. Freeman, Jr.
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We will send an additional 475 service members to Iraq. As I have said before, these American forces will not have a combat mission -…
— Barack Obama
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It will take time to eradicate a cancer like Isil. And any time we take military action, there are risks involved - especially to the…
— Barack Obama
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President Obama pushed for fairness in the military, listening to commanders as we ended Don't Ask Don't Tell, and on how to allow women to…
— Tammy Duckworth
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What the founders of modern science, among them Galileo, had to do, was not to criticize and to combat certain faulty theories, and to correct…
— Alexandre Koyre
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Thank God for running. It is the ultimate detox for me, whether my poison is bubbles, a foul mood, or a bad attitude. If I…
— Kristin Armstrong
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In any activity, we have to know what to expect, how to reach our objectives and what capacity we possess for the proposed task. The…
— Paulo Coelho
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This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may…
— Thomas Jefferson
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‎For Tempus...was a dozen storm gods' avatar; no army he sanctified could know defeat; no war he fought could not be won. Combat was life…
— Janet Morris
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"My fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended." Under the banner "Mission Accomplished."
— George W. Bush
Who Wrote These Combat Quotes
412 authors contributed a total of 519 Combat Quotes, led by these top contributors: