Account Quote by Lloyd Austin

If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians.

— Stuart Symington

You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.

— Barry Goldwater

“To protect civilians, the state needs sometimes to do things that are contrary to democratic behavior. It is true that in units like ours…

— Michael Bar-Zohar

Contrary to what some believe, taking all reasonable and feasible precautions to protect civilians - and mitigating the resulting anger when we harm them…

— Patrick Leahy

I've always had the idea that we were conducting a military operation. It always seemed to me to be in a state of emergency.

— Lincoln Kirstein

You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

You need the will to disarm the civilian population. If we can do it in Somalia, we can do it here.

— Mary McGrory

In my view, it is only when civilians are protected that we will defeat ISIS, and until that is at the centre of our…

— Jo Cox

I don't give a damn about the civilians.

— Richard M. Nixon

Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general's tent.

— Stephen Covey

I don't believe in killing civilians, and I'm not going to kill civilians for the United States Marine CORPS...

— Lamb Of God

Civilians are like beans; you buy 'em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy. But you can't buy fighting spirit.

— Robert A. Heinlein