Military Quotes

"We do thank our men and women in uniform. And I thank them. I thank this House today that approved a bill that will allow for a pay raise for our military. We are grateful for that and for the actions of this body"

Marsha Blackburn, Politician

"Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology"

Rebecca West, Author

"Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it will be met possibly with a protest or a demonstration"

Steve Buyer, Politician

"Every dollar that we send in State Department aid or humanitarian aid that saves us from having to get involved with very expensive military actions is a good investment. And frankly, helping Israel fight terrorism in the Middle East is much cheaper than us fighting it here on our shores"

Anthony Weiner, Politician

"I felt a little uncomfortable because, when I went in to the military, I was the main male vocalist they had and when I came out they had like two or three vocalists. Otis came in when I was in the military, too"

William Bell

"Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US-Japan negotiations, the military and economic pressures would only force Japan into further crisis if time were allowed to pass in vain"

Hideki Tojo, Soldier

"The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses - some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures. Were they all perpetuating their own lives in a myth?"

Dwight Schultz, Actor

"I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service"

Joseph Heller, Novelist

"We won't always have the strongest military"

Howard Dean, Politician

"Surely the Department of Defense can and needs to do a better job of training new and existing first responders to respond to sexual assaults occurring in the military"

Louise Slaughter, Politician

"In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks"

Gijs de Vries, Politician

"Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians"

Theodore C. Sorensen, Lawyer

"Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties"

George Soros, Businessman

"As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there"

Howard Dean, Politician

"The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges"

Benazir Bhutto, Leader

"The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable"

Barbara Mikulski, Politician

"The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996"

Akhmad Kadyrov, Statesman

"The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs"

Charles Babbage, Mathematician

"I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace"

Richard Cobden, Businessman

"To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic"

William Odom, Soldier

"During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes"

Walter Kohn, Physicist

"It is incumbent upon us to respond to the unique needs of military women and ensure they receive proper care during the first year following childbirth"

Susan Collins, Politician

"I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win"

Stuart Symington, Businessman

"The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

"The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"The two things that could have been better is number one, to get major military force into the community almost immediately to make sure that there was law and order. Number two, we had enough helicopters to airlift food into the centers of population and those places"

Warren Rudman, Politician

"Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers"

Karl Liebknecht, Politician

"Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role"

Robert Kagan, Writer

"If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans"

Omar Bongo, Statesman

"My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military"

Smedley Butler, Soldier

"President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat"

Kevin Costner, Actor

"For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?"

Fredric Jameson, Critic

"It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really thanked them for it, because I haven't exactly been pro-military in my work"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

"We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery"

Ed Wood, Director

"Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States"

Oliver North, Soldier

"We all know that in war the political and military factors have to complement each other"

Nguyen Cao Ky, Politician

"We ask them to remove the missiles deployed against Taiwan, give up their military threat, and instead let us together open the door to cross-Strait peaceful and stable dialogue and negotiations"

Chen Shui-bian, Statesman

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