Best Military Proverbs

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The enduring responsibility of the United States Air Force is to provide strategic deterrence for the Nation and fly, fight and win as an integral… — Unknown Author
To have command of the air means to be able to cut an enemy's army and navy off from their bases of operation and nullify… — Giulio Douhet
Adolf Galland said that the day we took our fighters off the bombers and put them against the German fighters, that is, went from defensive… — Jimmy Doolittle
The function and Navy in any future war will be to support the dominant air arm. — Jimmy Doolittle
We're at a real time of transition here in terms of future aviation. What's going to be manned? What's going to be unmanned? There are… — Michael Mullen
If we maintain our faith in God, love of freedom, and superior global air power, the future looks good. — Curtis LeMay
Fight on and fly on to the last drop of blood and the last drop of fuel, to the last beat of the heart. — Manfred von Richthofen
The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down. — Chuck Yeager
I want to make sure that the Coast Guard people in Vietnam know that I am hearing about them often and that I am pleased… — Unknown Author
Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true. — Ulysses S. Grant
There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war, it's to be prepared for peace. — Ronald Reagan
The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they… — George Washington
In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military. — Douglas MacArthur
Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also. — Ulysses S. Grant
To expect ... the same service from raw and undisciplined recruits, as from veteran soldiers, is to expect what never did and perhaps never will… — George Washington
But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if… — Andrew Jackson
Perhaps the happiest moment of my life was then, when I saw that our line didn't break and that the enemy's did. — Rutherford B. Hayes
The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than… — Sean O'Casey
No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most generous and proudest… — Michel de Montaigne
In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous… — Edmund Burke
War is too important a matter to be left to the military. — Georges Clemenceau
Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys with M16s going, "Who'd you… — Jon Stewart
The one thing I never want to see again is a military parade. When I resigned from the army and went to a farm I… — Ulysses S. Grant
Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy... — Abraham Lincoln
...the role of the military is to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place. — George W. Bush

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