Armed forces Quote by Gavin Williamson

I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.

— Siegfried Sassoon

That's my attitude on the military. I don't like telling the enemy what I'm doing.

— Donald Trump

Throughout my life, I have publicly and privately denounced military interventions in domestic politics. In fact, I have been advocating for democracy for decades.

— Fethullah Gulen

The reason we've always had a civilian in that job [Secretary of Defence] is because we really believe that it is policymakers who ought…

— Leon Panetta

My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any…

— Zachary Taylor

If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for…

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

I have made no secret, either privately or publicly, of any sense of outrage over officially enforced military and war service. I regard it…

— Albert Einstein

I have done what I felt to be my duty.

— Thomas Francis Meagher

I have sort of a visceral aversion to the prominence of the either active duty, in the case of General McMaster, or retired general…

— James R. Clapper

I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot act with…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

As I have said, I am not a war monger, nor am I a politician and I do not know anything about handling clever…

— Simi Garewal

Lots of army officers... a large number still believe that I have done my best for this country. They respect me.

— Abdul Qadeer Khan