Military Quotes

"Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms"

"In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

"I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution"

John F. Kennedy, President

"A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed"

John F. Kennedy, President

"I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose"

John F. Kennedy, President

"I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it"

Siegfried Sassoon, Poet

"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty"

George Washington, President

"A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end"

George S. Patton, Soldier

"I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President"

Andrew Jackson, President

"This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father's visits to the region. He wound up being impressed by the royal and military regimes and envied them for staying decades in their positions and embezzling the nation's money with no supervision"

Osama bin Laden, Criminal

"Well, my father was in the Army and we traveled quite a bit when I was growing up, and I thought that I would like to have a military career, although I was drawn more towards the Navy"

Marc Garneau, Astronaut

"I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer"

Marc Garneau, Astronaut

"War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men"

Georges Clemenceau, Leader

"To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world"

Barbara Boxer, Politician

"I am the supreme warlord; I do not wage war in order to achieve definite military objectives, but to destroy the enemy"

Wilhelm II, Statesman

"I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it"

Jay London, Comedian

"There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

"The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength"

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Politician

"Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago"

Barack Obama, President

"My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception"

Jimmy Carter, President

"We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war"

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Writer

"Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you"

Jimmy Johnson, Coach

"Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance"

Richard Leakey, Environmentalist

"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

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

Rebecca West, Author

"And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"If the military might of Germany and Japan are ultimately to be crushed, the United Nations, one and all, must definitely and urgently strive toward a total war effort"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"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

"A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone"

William Faulkner, Novelist

"Our military should spare no expense to ensure the safety of our troops, particularly as they confront a hostile insurgency and roadside bombs throughout Iraq"

Christopher Dodd, Politician

"And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God"

Salmon P. Chase, Politician

"Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"But if our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"More than 48 million men and women have served America well and faithfully in military uniform"

Steve Buyer, Politician

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