Military Quotes
2876 quotes by 1529 authors
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We make war that we may live in peace.
— Aristotle
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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
— Aristotle
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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
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
— Isaac Asimov
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Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.
— Dean Acheson
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A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
— Marcus Aurelius
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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
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
— Francis Bacon
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
— Joan Baez
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Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
— Philip James Bailey
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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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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