Military Quotes

Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff. During a briefing military stuff in which officials began telling him about missile silos.

Hate war, but love the American Warrior.

There will be no withdrawal without written orders and these orders shall never be issued.

Nobody dislikes war more than warriors.

Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps.

The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them.

Artillery is the god of war.

Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places.

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

I am a military police officer and I have served on two deployments my first was to Iraq, in a medical unit, and my second deployment was to Kuwait, as a military police platoon leader.

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

Artillery conquers and infantry occupies.

O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.

It doesn't take a military genius to see we'll all be crispy critters after World War III.

The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as a substitute for good seamanship.

In war, only the simple succeeds.

To be a leader means to be able to move masses

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

I want to make sure that the Coast Guard people in Vietnam know that I am hearing about them often and that I am pleased with what I hear.

Be resolute, fear no sacrifice, and surmount every difficulty to win victory.

On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.

Never let the enemy pick the battle site.

Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary.

Free supplies and open retreat are two essentials to the safety of an army or a fleet.

Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected.

So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible.

I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot.

In this ever-changing world, it's more important than ever that our top-notch military continues to receive the resources needed to serve and protect our country.

Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.

I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared.

We have severely underestimated the Russians, the extent of the country and the treachery of the climate. This is the revenge of reality.

I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire.

I'm going to fight my way out, I'm going to take all my equipment and all my wounded and as many dead as I can. If we can't get out this way, this Division will never fight as a unit again.

The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.

The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish ... the kind of war on which they are embarking.

The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

Success in battle is not a function of how many show up, but who they are.

Many of the vicious criminals held there have been caught on the battlefield fighting against American troops and shutting down Guantanamo Bay would just require the military to move them elsewhere.

To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.

This shall hence become my music.

The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace. The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military point of view, in the defeat of Japan.

Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits

A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors.

Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

You're never beaten until you admit it

Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.

The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits