Military Quotes - Page 13

There are hunters and there are victims. By your discipline...you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

I consider it an indispensible duty to close this last solemn act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God and those who have the superintendence of them into his Holy keeping.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.

I have just taken on a great responsibility. I will do my utmost to meet it.

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.

Being ready is not what matters. What matters is winning after you get there.

Then, Sir, we will give them the bayonet!

The Marines fought almost solely on esprit de corps, I was certain. It was inconceivable to most Marines that they should let another Marine down, or that they could be responsible for dimming the bright reputation of their Corps. The Marines simply assumed that they were the world's best fighting men.

In order to assure an adequate national defense, it is necessary - and sufficient - to be in a position in case of war to conquer the command of the air.

From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home, America. From the entrenchment of special privileges in tax favoritism; from the waste of idle lands to the joy of useful labor; from the prejudice based on race and sex; from the loneliness of the aging poor and the despair of the neglected sick - come home, America.

I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.... Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.

Become strong again in spirit, strong in will, strong in endurance, strong to bear all sacrifices

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

I believe that forgiving them is god's function, our job is to arrange the meeting.

The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

I've always been proud of being a Marine. I won't hesitate to defend the Corps.

There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished.

You've been told that you're broken. That you're damaged goods ... there is also Post-Traumatic Growth. You come back from war stronger and more sure of who you are.

Americans never quit.

We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem!

The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.

I have made no secret, either privately or publicly, of any sense of outrage over officially enforced military and war service. I regard it as a duty of conscience to fight against such barbarous enslavement of the individual with every means available.