Military Quotes - Page 91

Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

I have the utmost confidence that through your efforts we will eventually beat the hell out of those bastards - You name them; I'll shoot them!

Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.

The obvious thing for the cavalryman to do is to accept the fighting machine as a partner, and prepare to meet more fully the demands of future warfare.

Success is how you bounce on the bottom.

For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy.

To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.

From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.

I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there.

The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum. This was lost last fall when shortages caused by the limitation of port facilities made it impossible to get sufficient supplies to the armies when they approached the German border.

When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

To "bear arms" is, in itself, a military term. One does not bear arms against a rabbit.

I reckon that there won't be an intervention in the near future, because Georgia's military adventure revealed the weakness of the Russian army.

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.

Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators. Your wealth has been stripped of you by unjust men... The people of Baghdad shall flourish under institutions which are in consonance with their sacred laws.

My God, I wish we had [the] 9th Australian Division with us this morning.

They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes and welded the tanks. Riveted the ships and rolled the shells.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

From their maneuvers and their terrific speed I am certain their flight performance was greater than any aircraft known today.

What's brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but also the independence of the military from civilians, an independent media and press, an independent central bank.

ROTC programs at Ivy League campuses would liberalize the military. That can only be good for this country.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.

Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.