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Military Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
- Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
- Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can…
- Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
- For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
- They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet…
- I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition,…
More Military Quotes
- 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… — 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,… — 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