Military Quotes - Page 74

I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.

The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

When you have got military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, they're intended for one purpose. And that is to inflict as much damage on human beings in as short as time as possible.

A superpower that no longer stands for anything, that no one believes in anymore, that is seen only as a bully, will fall despite its military might. If the Bush administration ever wanted to reflect on history, it might think about this.

Excited. In a good way. I've been training my whole life for this.

The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex.

Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who cant write their own language.

When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all.

We need a president who will lead with a stronger, more consistent foreign policy. We also need our commander in chief to put more faith in military leadership who have all of the combat experience. It’s bad policy to try to micromanage too much operationally and tactically from a desk in the Oval Office.

If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.

The most racist, nastiest act by the USA, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have had some military significance. But Nagasaki was purely blowing away men, women, and children.

Voroshilov was a hard-riding, hard-drinking military crony of civil-war days.

If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show we've got a really big problem.

Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.

The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.

I 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?

The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.

Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking. . . . If we are to be sure of our liberty, we must be ready to fight for it.

My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it.

The disconnect between America and its military is shocking.

There is something about permanent military occupation which seems to confine a man's scope and limit his opportunities; and after he has had a few years under the circumscribed conditions of official routine, he generally find himself wholly out of touch with civil occupation.

Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less personal.