Military Quotes - Page 7

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

A piece of paper makes you an officer, a radio makes you a commander.

Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

Find the enemy and shoot him down. Anything else is nonsense.

We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds.

The commander must decide how he will fight the battle before it begins. He must then decide who he will use the military effort at his disposal to force the battle to swing the way he wishes it to go; he must make the enemy dance to his tune from the beginning and not vice versa.

Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. ... This is the only way to become a great general and master the secrets of the art of war.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.

By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans who served on Iwo Island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people believe that immense fleets and armies are necessary.

The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power - power in its most despotic exercise - absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms - and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses.

My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma

**** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!

In each succeeding war there is a tendency to proclaim as something new the principles under which it is conducted. Not only those who have never studied or experienced the realities of war, but also professional soldiers frequently fall into the error. But the principles of warfare as I learned them at West Point remain unchanged.

The World War demonstrated the importance of Field Artillery. The majority of casualties were inflicted by the arm.

The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years.

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

The Army of Northern Virginia was never defeated. It merely wore itself out whipping the enemy.

You are part of the world's most feared and trusted force. Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.