Military Quotes

Come on boys! Give them the cold steel! Who will follow me?

There are no more worlds to conquer!

Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

You will come home before the leaves have fallen from the trees.

What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

The U.S.'s major strength factor and weapon is its economy. If you cripple it, you cripple the military.

Don't forget, incoming fire has the right of way.

When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue.

We must make this campaign an exceedingly active one. Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger; it must make up in activity what it lacks in strength.

There are hunters and there are victims. By your discipline...you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

Being ready is not what matters. What matters is winning after you get there.

In order to assure an adequate national defense, it is necessary - and sufficient - to be in a position in case of war to conquer the command of the air.

Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

I have just taken on a great responsibility. I will do my utmost to meet it.

I've always been proud of being a Marine. I won't hesitate to defend the Corps.

The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.

There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished.

Become strong again in spirit, strong in will, strong in endurance, strong to bear all sacrifices

Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

Then, Sir, we will give them the bayonet!

The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war.

I believe that forgiving them is god's function, our job is to arrange the meeting.

Fate only picks on the cowards and quitters, So give 'em both barrels - and aim for the eyes.

You've been told that you're broken. That you're damaged goods ... there is also Post-Traumatic Growth. You come back from war stronger and more sure of who you are.

Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

You can overcome wrong technology. Your people have the initiative, they see the problem, no big deal ... you can't overcome bad culture. You've gotta change whoever is in charge.

Military police is very timely for our army.

Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks.

The onset of bayonets in the hands of the valiant is irresistible.

We are all members of the same great family ... On social occasions the formality of strictly military occasions should be relaxed, and a spirit of friendliness and goodwill should prevail.

The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization.

It must be thoroughly understood that the lost land will never be won back by solemn appeals to the God, nor by hopes in any League of Nations, but only by the force of arms.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.

Generalissimo Stalin directed every move... made every decision... He is the greatest and wisest military genius who ever lived...

Nothing is more destructive than the charge of artillery on a crowd.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem!

Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

Air power alone does not guarantee America's security, but I believe it best exploits the nation's greatest asset - our technical skill.

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.

Strike hard and fast and do not separate.

Kennedy was haunted by the Bay of Pigs invasion but carried the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis. He later increased the number of U.S. military advisers to South Vietnam to more than 16,000.

We are United States Marines, and for two and a quarter centuries we have defined the standards of courage, esprit, and military prowess.

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.