Military Quotes
When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.
Tags: Fact, Struggle ✍ Author: Kate AdieAll the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
Tags: Drink, Earth ✍ Author: Abraham LincolnThe spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.
Tags: Country, Spirit ✍ Author: Thomas JeffersonConquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
Tags: Hard, Impact ✍ Author: Walter BagehotMan is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
Tags: Animal ✍ Author: Philip James BaileyIn 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.
Tags: Depression, President ✍ Author: Warren BuffettRehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.
Tags: Together, Words ✍ Author: Jerry CantrellAnd, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career.
Tags: Career, Goals ✍ Author: Duane G. CareyBut, as you have intimated, I am among those who would be very wary of any military action in the light of Saddam Hussein's willingness to allow the weapons inspectors to go in.
Tags: Action, Light ✍ Author: George CareyMost of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.
Tags: Boots, Young ✍ Author: Paulo CoelhoSan Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.
Tags: Force, Growing ✍ Author: Steve EarleAs anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
Tags: Anyone, Problems ✍ Author: Barbara EhrenreichFor me, it's an honor for the military to ask me to go to Iraq, Afghanistan, or GITMO. I'm happy to go.
Tags: Happy, Honor ✍ Author: R. Lee ErmeyThe administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also for military requirements not directly related to these conflicts.
Tags: Behavior, Iraq ✍ Author: Russ FeingoldOur concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs.
Tags: Alone, America ✍ Author: Douglas FeithI am a military police officer and I have served on two deployments; my first was to Iraq, in a medical unit, and my second deployment was to Kuwait, as a military police platoon leader.
Tags: Leader, Medical ✍ Author: Tulsi GabbardI went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.
Tags: College, Graduation ✍ Author: Marc GarneauI have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.
Tags: Against, Bourgeois ✍ Author: Charles de GaulleVisit partners pages
In a military operation, the command and control elements are a legitimate target.
Tags: Command, Control ✍ Author: Stephen HadleyI am fully supportive of 'open service' and committed to LGBT military families.
Tags: Open, Service ✍ Author: Chuck HagelIf I really had to pinpoint my happiest days out of the United States, I'd choose those Fifties military days in Britain, particularly my time in South Ruislip. I had a ball.
Tags: Days, Time ✍ Author: Larry HagmanI don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.
Tags: Moment, Wise ✍ Author: William HagueThe reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.
Tags: Defeat, Reason ✍ Author: Franz HalderU.S. officials and outside experts agree that China is undertaking a comprehensive modernization of its military. The Chinese military has gotten smaller but smarter.
Tags: Agree, Outside ✍ Author: Lee H. HamiltonThe military never uses a full word if they can create an abbreviation.
Tags: Create, Word ✍ Author: Philip HammondSo long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.
Tags: Others, Temptation ✍ Author: Daisaku IkedaMilitary operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms.
Tags: Cannot, Free ✍ Author: Mike JacksonThere's a really classic cliche every time you switch the TV on - you see cops arguing. I have spent a day a week for many years in the presence of police and I have never seen them argue. It's a military hierarchy. They do what they're told. There's no bickering.
Tags: Time, Week ✍ Author: Peter JamesMilitary troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.
Tags: Chechnya, Troops ✍ Author: Akhmad KadyrovBased 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.
Tags: America, Power ✍ Author: Robert KaganI think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.
Tags: Away, Giving ✍ Author: Robert KaganThe Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the early and mid-nineties, it didn't really affect it.
Tags: Cold, War ✍ Author: Robert D. KaplanI knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running, but we needed to evaluate how many criminal prison operations we could support.
Tags: Knew, Support ✍ Author: Janis KarpinskiIn November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely; it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq.
Tags: After, Control ✍ Author: Janis KarpinskiMilitary police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under their control.
Tags: Control, Fair ✍ Author: Janis KarpinskiThat policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility of conducting training, which they did. We were not equipped or set up with personnel to recruit new Iraqi guards.
Tags: Police, Training ✍ Author: Janis KarpinskiIn military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy.
Tags: Mission, School ✍ Author: Robert KiyosakiWhen their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.
Tags: Hair, Women ✍ Author: Christian LacroixOur neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military.
Tags: Neighbor, Team ✍ Author: Tom LantosIf the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
Tags: America, Financial ✍ Author: Rachel MaddowMilitary preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.
Tags: Absolutely, Strength ✍ Author: Rachel MaddowMilitary justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Tags: Justice, Music ✍ Author: Groucho MarxThe application of military force, or the prospect of such application, inhibits terrorist violence.
Tags: Force, Violence ✍ Author: Benjamin NetanyahuI think it's really important for people to hear what our men and women in the military have to say.
Tags: Men, Women ✍ Author: Joe NicholsWe were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.
Tags: Life, Time ✍ Author: Peter O\'TooleOperations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.
Tags: Terrorism, War ✍ Author: Barack ObamaThe military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that.
Tags: History, Successful ✍ Author: Ehud OlmertI think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world.
Tags: Power, United ✍ Author: Leon PanettaSexual assault has no place in the military. It is a violation of everything that the U.S. military stands for.
Tags: Place, Sexual ✍ Author: Leon PanettaA piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.
Tags: End, Front ✍ Author: George S. PattonThus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected.
Tags: Peace, Security ✍ Author: Ludwig QuiddeMy father was a military attache, so I've been traveling all my life.
Tags: Father, Life ✍ Author: Edgar RamirezI think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It's an attitude of hunters; they're observing the prey.
Tags: Attitude, End ✍ Author: Edgar RamirezThe Americans provide still more advanced military assets and equipment; the Europeans are lagging behind. And eventually it will be difficult to co-operate even if you had the political will to co-operate because of the technological gap.
Tags: Difficult, Political ✍ Author: Anders Fogh RasmussenThe Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed innocent civilians in Dresden and dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.
Tags: Innocent, War ✍ Author: Melissa RauchWhat's brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but also the independence of the military from civilians, an independent media and press, an independent central bank.
Tags: Government, Power ✍ Author: Melissa RauchHaving committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.
Tags: Neither, Ourselves ✍ Author: Jack ReedI will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.
Tags: Insist, Powerful ✍ Author: Mitt RomneyWe will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.
Tags: Might, Security ✍ Author: Mitt RomneyWhite House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.
Tags: House, State ✍ Author: Jeffrey SachsThe main reason for the armed resistance is the American military presence.
Tags: American, Reason ✍ Author: Muqtada al SadrIf the American military begins to withdrawal, there will be no need for these armed groups.
Tags: American, Begins ✍ Author: Muqtada al SadrIf you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Tags: Innocent, Wisdom ✍ Author: Harrison SalisburyThe U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.
Tags: Control, Needs ✍ Author: Jose SaramagoI always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?
Tags: Ask, United ✍ Author: Jose SaramagoA military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.
Tags: Courage, Sacrifice ✍ Author: Jalal TalabaniMilitary confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.
Tags: Current, Security ✍ Author: Jalal TalabaniI did not go to military school. I had an option either a military school or a private school. I don't know how to get that out of the information that's out there.
Tags: Either, School ✍ Author: Art TatumAn overstretched military undermines homeland security and our ability to meet threats around the world.
Tags: Ability, Security ✍ Author: Ellen TauscherI've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004.
Tags: Place, Society ✍ Author: Mark UdallI have served in the Congress during two wars and I have seen the impacts on our military, on their families and on our national deficit.
Tags: Congress, Seen ✍ Author: Tom UdallIt is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
Tags: Men, Themselves ✍ Author: Eamon de ValeraI'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.
Tags: Against, Might ✍ Author: Jesse VenturaOur embedded reporters during the war agreed to guidelines established by the military.
Tags: Guidelines, War ✍ Author: Izaak WaltonThe Palestinian situation is different. We can have military cooperation with other factions in the Palestinian territories. But we cannot have this with Hizbullah in Lebanon.
Tags: Cannot, Situation ✍ Author: Ilya YashinIt is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression.
Tags: Face, Rather ✍ Author: Ilya YashinI was researching a different World War II story when I came across an article in the 'Chicago Tribune' from June 1945 that knocked me for a loop. The article explained that a military plane had crashed in an impossibly remote valley of New Guinea that had been nicknamed Shangri-La.
Tags: Story, War ✍ Author: Carl ZuckmayerStatistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
Tags: Mortality, Statistics ✍ Author: Alphonse AllaisPlanning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.
Tags: Large, Weakness ✍ Author: John R. AllenThere are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.
Tags: Africa, America ✍ Author: Barbara AmielI was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me.
Tags: American, Put ✍ Author: Leon AskinMy hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.
Tags: Hope, War ✍ Author: Roseanne BarrThe Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century.
Tags: Found, Past ✍ Author: Charles Foster BassThe Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization.
Tags: Effort, Technology ✍ Author: Charles Foster BassIn this ever-changing world, it's more important than ever that our top-notch military continues to receive the resources needed to serve and protect our country.
Tags: Country, Needed ✍ Author: Max BaucusFor years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs - perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism.
Tags: Far, Trying ✍ Author: Greg BearJAG is an acronym for the Judge Advocate General, which is the judicial system of the military.
Tags: Judge, System ✍ Author: Catherine BellI 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.
Tags: Felt, Three ✍ Author: William BellIn two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path.
Tags: Africa, Path ✍ Author: Ahmed Ben BellaI am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention.
Tags: Separate, Solution ✍ Author: Silvio BerlusconiThe arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.
Tags: Earth, Race ✍ Author: Daniel BerriganThe military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
Tags: System, Wants ✍ Author: Benazir BhuttoThe military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.
Tags: Government, Motivated ✍ Author: Benazir BhuttoSo that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.
Tags: Figured, Lawyer ✍ Author: Ruben Blades