Military Quotes - Page 8

The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down.

It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it will not be fought on U.S. soil.

I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

It is one of history's most mocking ironies that the German customs union, which set out to dominate Europe and conquer Britain in the form of Bismarckian or Hitlerian military force, has at last vanquished the victor by drawing Britain into a Zollverein which comprises Western Europe and aspires to comprise the Mediterranean as well. If the ghosts of the Hohenzollerns come back to haunt this planet, they must find a lot to laugh at.

Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.

We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

If we come to a minefield, our infantry attacks exactly as it were not there.

The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country

I was reminded as I was reviewing my life, that I have been in too many conflicts, too many wars, political battles, military battles, civil strifes in government. And always one lesson stands out and that is, those whom you fight most passionately often turn out to be your best friends.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.

I hope that the outside world will realise that Hitler's government has no idea of steering towards war, even though this has often been asserted abroad. As Adolf Hitler himself has said, Germany has no need of another war to avenge the loss of her military honour, because she never lost that honour. Germany does not want war of any kind. Germany wants real and abiding peace.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

My solution to the problem would be to tell [the North Vietnamese Communists] frankly that they've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the Stone Age. And we would shove them back into the Stone Age with Air power or Naval power - not with ground forces.

I don't mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors.

Only force rules. Force is the first law