Military Quotes - Page 64

The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness.

I really like being thrown into the works. Many actors, I have found, have this as a common trait. We had to, as children, adapt to various situations with either a military family or things like that.

Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.

Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.

The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them.

Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

They feed the crocodile in the hope that he will eat them last.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

No economic, political or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind

I don't take criticism lying down.

Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!

An army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every enactment, every change of rule which impairs this principle weakens the army, impairs its value, and defeats the very object of its existence.

All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.

I speak the password primeval; I give the sign of democracy.

Military intervention to maintain the global status quo will become a constant feature of international relations, whether this is justified in terms of fighting drugs, fighting terrorism, containing 'rogue states', opposing 'Islamic fundamentalism', or containing China.

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

It [the intelligence service] concludes that Iraq has chemical and biological weapons, that Saddam has continued to produce them, that he has existing and active military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons, which could be activated within 45 minutes, including against his own Shia population; and that he is actively trying to acquire nuclear weapons capability.

Military pay has been allowed to lag behind to the point where career enlisted men with families to feed have been forced to resort to food stamps.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

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