Military Quotes

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We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection… — M H Abrams
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov
Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
A man should be upright, not be kept upright. — Marcus Aurelius
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. — Marcus Aurelius
The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military… — Charles Babbage
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. — Francis Bacon
We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. — Robert Baden-Powell
If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? — Joan Baez
Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade. — Philip James Bailey
My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel. — Roseanne Barr
Judaism is one of the last of the world's matrilineal philosophies. Matriarchies are always the cultures that patriarchy attacks and decimates, because they don't spend… — Roseanne Barr
I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and… — Clara Barton
My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the term.… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. — Henry Ward Beecher
The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the… — Daniel Berrigan

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