Combat Quotes

519 quotes by 412 authors

Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose and combat the… — Ezra Taft Benson
I think women are too valuable to be in combat. — Caspar Weinberger
Lent is like a long 'retreat' during which we can turn back into ourselves and listen to the voice of God, in order to defeat… — Pope Benedict XVI
In Paris ... I achieved a freer attitude towards anti-Semitism, which I now began to understand historically and to pardon. Above all I recognise the… — Theodor Herzl
I would rather have this life of combat than the moral calm and mournful stupor of these last years. God give me struggle, enemies, howling… — Romain Rolland
Catholics are born for combat. — Pope Leo XIII
Democracy acknowledges the right to differ as well as the duty to settle differences peacefully. Authoritarian governments see criticism of their actions and doctrines as… — Aung San Suu Kyi
I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam. — Tracy Kidder
This world belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. We… — Ken Kesey
When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no… — Prince Andrew
Everything I had ever learned about air fighting taught me that the man who is aggressive, who pushes a fight, is the pilot who is… — Robert S. Johnson
Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a… — Phyllis Schlafly
Good flying never killed an enemy yet. — Mick Mannock
A top World War II ace once said that fighter pilots fall into two broad categories: those who go out to kill and those who,… — Nathan Farragut Twining
You lived and died alone, especially in fighters. Fighters. Somehow, despite everything, that word had not become sterile. You slipped into the hollow cockpit and… — James Salter
The more mechanical becomes the weapons with which we fight, the less mechanical must be the spirit which controls them. — Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
I mean, I had fast motor cars and fast motor bikes, and when I wasn't crashing airplanes, I was crashing motor bikes. It's all part… — Harry Broadhurst
To the aircraft I aim, not the man. — Francesco Baracca
You don't think much of the individual, because you don't think you've hit him and you hope that he will bail out or something; it's… — Peter Malam Brothers
Of all my accomplishments I may have achieved during the war, I am proudest of the fact that I never lost a wingman. — Erich Hartmann

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