Military Quotes - Page 22

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

I'd like to have two armies: one for display with lovely guns, tanks, little soldiers, staffs, distinguished and doddering generals, and dear little regimental officers who would be deeply concerned over their general's bowel movements or their colonel's piles, an army that would be shown for a modest fee on every fairground in the country.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in.

Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring it's value and it's power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thought as thought rather than getting caught up in them as reality.

Once you run for office, you're in it - sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy.

In view of Chinas growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asias permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies.

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men

I find a difference in British spy fiction and American spy fiction. In the American version, it's more militaristic, partly because the CIA has more of the military makeup. Whereas MI6 is more of a cerebral, intelligence-based, relationship-based service, i.e., all they do is recruit people to get information out of them.

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.

As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

It is not a struggle merely of economic theories, or forms of government or of military power. At issue is the true nature of man. Either man is the creature whom the psalmist described as a little lower than the angels ... or man is a soulless, animated machine to be enslaved, used and consumed by the state for its own glorification. It is, therefore, a struggle which goes to the roots of the human spirit, and its shadow falls across the long sweep of man's destiny.

I'll likely be married to the soldier mob for better and for worse to live and to die.

I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.

A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.

The Guns, Thank God, The Guns.

Never do an enemy a small injury.

The secret of war lies in the communications.

The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.