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Military Quotes by George Washington
- It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it,…
- 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…
- To expect ... the same service from raw and undisciplined recruits, as from veteran soldiers, is to expect what never did and perhaps never will…
- I consider it an indispensible duty to close this last solemn act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to…
- Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part.
- They will avoid ... those Overgrown Military establishements which ... are ... particularly hostile to Republican liberty.
- To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
- Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
- Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
- A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and…
- 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…
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