Military famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
-- Aaron McGruder -
I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.
-- Abdallah II -
I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
-- Abdallah II -
When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.
-- Abdallah II -
Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung
-- Abraham Lincoln -
From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
If there is no military need for the building, leave it alone, neither putting anyone in or out of it, except on finding some one preaching or practicing treason, in which case lay hands on him, just as if he were doing the same thing in any other building.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The world is witnessing first hand, live on television, the hearts ofAmerican warriors - and the spirit and pride only displayed by magnificent young men and women who are volunteers in the fight for the cause of freedom. Its all about heart.
-- Ada F Kay -
When faced with structural injustice, especially in the form of oppressive military occupations, I have a tendency get a little worked up. So I was interested in learning more about the complicated conflict and decided I would lend some of my time and energy to do so.
-- Adam Beach -
In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.
-- Adam Driver -
Yeah, September 11 happened and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.
-- Adam Driver -
Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.
-- Adam Driver -
If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems labeling them as such. After all, cancer will kill one in every two men and one in every three women now alive, reports Samuel Epstein, chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition. Like our ancestors, we act in ways that will bemuse future societies. The military-industrial complex lubricates the mass-agriculture system with fossil fuels. Tons of heavy metals and other hazardous, even radioactive, waste is sprayed on American agricultural soil.
-- Adam Gollner -
'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
-- Adam McKay -
I would need to see changes in the Iraq governance. Otherwise I don't think strikes are going to have any impact and could be very well counterproductive.
-- Adam Schiff -
Whether we kept a certain number of troops there or pulled out completely, if we can't get the Maliki government to include a large segment of its population in its security forces and protection, then the small amount of forces that we would have left there might have slowed this day, but they wouldn't have prevented it altogether.
-- Adam Schiff -
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.
-- Adelaide Clemens -
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes
-- Adolf Hitler -
Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself.
-- Adolf Hitler -
This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Who says I am not under the special protection of God?
-- Adolf Hitler -
Night gangsters! For this crime I will exact a thousand fold revenge!
-- Adolf Hitler -
We will not capitulate - no, never! We may be destroyed, but if we are, we shall drag a world with us - a world in flames.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Struggle is the father of all things, virtue lies in blood, leadership is primary and decisive
-- Adolf Hitler -
I will never allow anyone to divide this people once more into religious camps, each fighting the other
-- Adolf Hitler -
The world will not help, the people must help themselves. Its own strength is the source of life. That strength the Almighty has given us to use; that in it and through it, we may wage the battle of our life The others in the past years have not had the blessing of the Almighty - of Him who in the last resort, whatever man may do, holds in His hands the final decision. Lord God, let us never hesitate or play the coward
-- Adolf Hitler -
For there is one thing we must never forget... the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will an heroic decision arise from a hundred cowards.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Let us never forget the duty, which we have taken upon us
-- Adolf Hitler -
We are all proud that through God's powerful aid, we have become once more true Germans
-- Adolf Hitler -
England, unlike in 1914, will not allow herself to blunder into a war lasting for years.... Such is the fate of rich countries.. .Not even England has the money nowadays to fight a world war. What should England fight for? You don't get yourself killed over an ally.
-- Adolf Hitler -
A single blow must destroy the enemy... without regard of losses... a gigantic all-destroying blow.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Germany is prepared to agree to any solemn pact of non-aggression, because she does not think of attacking but only acquiring security.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
-- Adolf Hitler -
For dash and gallantry the bloodthirsty Scots, Australians and Canadians led the way, with the impetuous Irish close behind. The Australian to my mind were the most aggressive, and managed to keep their form in spite of their questionable discipline. Out of the line they were undoubtedly difficult to handle, but once in it they loved a fight. They were a curious mixture of toughness and sentimentality...
-- Adrian Carton de Wiart -
I did a real boot camp once which with The Thin Red Line which was learning military exercises and this was far less strenuous. I really had a blast. We were all kind of thrown into the woods and we didn't have any of the modern conveniences that we take for granted. Learned how to survive without anything.
-- Adrien Brody -
Education has a tremendous power on man. Can't we see to which astonishing disciple the people of Sparte have submitted ("s'est plié", Fr.) for centuries, and this with a view to very petty purposes: purely outer greatness, the military predominace of Sparte. This example proves that man can everything on themselves when they want it ("peuvent tout sur eux-mêmes quand ils le veulent", Fr.); therefore it would only be a question of making them will the good.
-- African Spir -
The Spartans do not enquire how many the enemy are, but where they are.
-- Agis II -
In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path.
-- Ahmed Ben Bella -
Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again.
-- Ahmed Ben Bella -
I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death.
-- Ahmed Ben Bella -
The battle against terrorism is not only a military fight but primarily a battle of information.
-- Ahmed Chalabi -
It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression.
-- Ahmed Yassin -
I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.
-- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani -
Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.
-- Akhmad Kadyrov -
Actually, I have a lot of hobbies, but I've kept up with model-building the longest. In particular, I love military models.
-- Akira Toriyama -
During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
-- Al Franken -
I used to have a military officer travelling with me at all times with a suitcase - referred to as the nuclear football - in case it had to be used.
-- Al Gore -
It doesn't take a military genius to see we'll all be crispy critters after World War III.
-- Al Yankovic -
Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.
-- Alan Bradley -
The explosion of a terrorist's single nuclear device in a major metropolitan center would trigger an unparalleled humanitarian and environmental disaster. An accidental military launch of multiple warheads could result in a worldwide nuclear holocaust. Medical researchers and military analysts forebode grim consequences.
-- Alan Cranston -
The probability of a fatal nuclear detonation is greater now than at any time during the Cold War. As the Russian military deteriorates, and as rogue governments and terrorists seek to acquire nuclear capabilities, the threat continues to grow.
-- Alan Cranston -
U.S. military action in Iraq: It sure didn't work out well last time. Let's not make that mistake again.
-- Alan Grayson -
It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family.
-- Alan Keyes -
In its proper constitutional sense, the term [militia] means all the able-bodied people who can be trained and disciplined to act in the community’s defence when it’s attacked. Since it encompasses every able-bodied person, it does not refer to those—such as the police, the military, or even the National Guard—who formally compose the official defence forces of the nation. Every citizen able and willing to act in an emergency becomes a potential defender against attacks aimed at the general population.
-- Alan Keyes -
Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.
-- Albert Bushnell Hart -
The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.
-- Albert Einstein -
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
-- Albert Einstein -
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
-- Albert Einstein -
A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war.
-- Albert Einstein -
The same thinking that has led you to where you are is not going to lead you to where you want to go.
-- Albert Einstein -
A military leader often faces a situation he has to deal with, but because it is his duty, no court can try him.
-- Albert Kesselring -
America is my home I believe in her promise and I will do what I can to secure that promise for future generations of our children. America is great not because of our military might or our economic strength but because of the greatness of Americans, and I welcome the opportunity to stand shoulder to shoulder, side by side with all of you to preserve our heritage rich in "liberty and justice for all.
-- Alberto Gonzales -
If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military.
-- Aldous Huxley -
I did not decide to become an officer to start a military career. I still wanted to be an agronomist and work in some remote corner of Russia after the war. I could not suppose that my country would change, and I would.
-- Aleksandr Vasilevsky -
Sergeant Bergdahl may have broken any number of military laws.
-- Alex Berenson -
The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.
-- Alexander Haig -
What bosom beast not in his country's cause?
-- Alexander Pope -
The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps.
-- Alexander Vandegrift -
Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary.
-- Alfred M. Gray -
Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other in one second all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror.
-- Alfred Nobel -
The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.
-- Alfred Thayer Mahan -
Having therefore no foreign establishments, either colonial or military, the ships of war of the United States, in war, will be like land birds, unable to fly far from their own shores. To provide resting places for them, where they can coal and repair, would be one of the first duties of a government proposing to itself the development of the power of the nation at sea.
-- Alfred Thayer Mahan -
Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world.
-- Alfred Thayer Mahan -
Free supplies and open retreat are two essentials to the safety of an army or a fleet.
-- Alfred Thayer Mahan -
A ten per cent reduction in military expenditures per year would be reasonable, coupled with a programme of retraining the workforce and redirecting the resources in a manner that creates employment and advances social welfare. I also encourage all States to contribute to the UN's annual Report on Military Expenditures by submitting complete data on national defence budgets.
-- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas -
I urge Governments to considerably reduce funds allocated to the military, not only as a disarmament issue, but also as a potential contributor to social and environmental protection and call for the holding of referenda on this issue worldwide.
-- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas -
Global military spending levels constitute an unconscionable use of resources and remain at an all-time high, reaching a total of USD 1.75 trillion in 2012, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
-- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas -
Every democracy must involve civil society in the process of establishing budgets, and all sectors of society must be consulted to determine what the real priorities of the population are. Lobbies, including military contractors and other representatives of the military-industrial complex, must not be allowed to hijack these priorities to the detriment of the population's real needs.
-- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas -
Democracy entails a correlation between the public interest as expressed by a majority of the population and the governmental policies that affect them. The term encompasses various manifestations, including direct, participatory and representative democracy, but Governments must be responsive to people and not to special interests such as the military-industrial complex, financial bankers and transnational corporations. Democracy is inclusive and does not privilege an anthropological aristocracy.
-- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas -
Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.
-- Allan Massie -
We must never forget why we have, and why we need our military. Our armed forces exist solely to ensure our nation is safe, so that each and every one of us can sleep soundly at night, knowing we have 'guardians at the gate.'
-- Allen West -
I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker.
-- Allen West -
When I retired out of the military, I registered myself as a Republican because my views and perspectives were more in line with that party.
-- Allen West -
Hey anyone who thinks a non-military–grade rappelling cable can support the weight of two grown men and a miniature donkey deserves to fall off a cliff.
-- Ally Carter -
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais -
War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.
-- Alva Myrdal -
All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.
-- Amar Bose -
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him. In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
General," said the commander of the delinquent brigade, "I am persuaded that any further display of valor by my troops will bring them into collision with the enemy.
-- Ambrose Bierce
