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In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish! — Eddie Rickenbacker

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

As a military child I first learned how to deal with different types of people and how to deal with order. — Shaquille O'Neal

As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war. — B.H. Liddell Hart

Enemies are necessary for the wheels of the U.S. military machine to turn. — John Stockwell

Olivia responded with confidence, "You're the military. You're in charge. Why would I be scared? — Jettie Necole

But you have to have a vision of what kind of military you are trying to build in order to get the [budget] cuts to make sense. — Jessica Mathews

If you entrench yourself behind strong fortifications, you compel the enemy seek a solution elsewhere. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Big institutions in this imperial state, in this evil US empire, prepare their politicians to become criminals. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

The biggest mistake of my life was taking a military education. — Robert E.Lee

The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled. — Guy Gavriel Kay

We're like America's little pit bull. They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they let it out to attack somebody. — Evan Wright

My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed. — Ishmael Beah

There isn't any air power in the world that can take care of the problem of sectarian divisions. — Bob Menendez

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

No police or military in the world can protect people who are cowards. — Mahatma Gandhi

As journalist, I'm responsible to the American people, not to the military of the United States. — Amy Goodman

Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen. — Vladimir Putin

When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe we've ... we've worked very hard with the Iraqis to build a better place ever since the fall of Saddam's government. — John Abizaid

We are all proud that through God's powerful aid, we have become once more true Germans — Adolf Hitler

Information on UFOs, including sighting reports, has been and is still being officially withheld. — Gordon Cooper

Here beneath the towering pines, by the river blue
Farragut will ever stand, alma mater true — Bruce A. Sarte

His transgression may become their salvation. — Victoria Saccenti

I realized that both the military and religious orders depend on discipline to shape people - which routine does, in a lot of ways. — Kit Reed

Only great and general battles can produce great results — Carl Von Clausewitz

It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten to murder Americans. — Ted Cruz

Great liars are also great magicians. — Adolf Hitler

The military hospital is the most cheerful of militaty buildings because there are so few uniforms inside. — Alfred Jarry

Wars without military objectives have a tendency to go on forever. — Virginia Postrel

No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq. — Dick Morris

I absolutely hate the way the United States glorifies its military and its wars. Real heroes fight for peace. — Michel Templet

Military dictatorship, you can focus on it, you can fight it directly. It's a band of power-driven people. — Wole Soyinka

Military Wives - Sacrificing Months of Sex for the Country. — Aditi Mathur Kumar

The Guns, Thank God, The Guns ... — Rudyard Kipling

So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence. — Sun Tzu

The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty. — Dante Alighieri

We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us. — Winston S. Churchill

Military discipline is merely a perfection of social servitude. — Alexis De Tocqueville

A political problem thought of in military terms eventually becomes a military problem. — George C. Marshall

Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn't a realistic expectation. — Lee Ellis

I have always had a keen interest in defence and military history and read more on this subject than anything else. — Bob Ainsworth

Why don't church leaders forbid Catholics from joining the military with the same fervor they tell Catholics to stay away from abortion clinics? — William Blum

I have served in the Congress during two wars and I have seen the impacts on our military, on their families and on our national deficit. — Tom Udall

Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible. — Mahatma Gandhi

Turks have long admired the sultan, Mehmet II, for his military triumphs, especially his capture of Constantinople, now known as Istanbul, in 1453. — Stephen Kinzer

The military was all about hierarchies, who urinated highest on the hydrant — Justin Cronin

The men with stars on their shoulders supporting gays serving in the military is going to have a profound impact. — Norah O'Donnell

Now comes the reign of iron - and cased sloops are to take the place of wooden ships. — John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren

I'm not sure how paying for transgender surgery [in the military] makes our country safer. — Mike Huckabee

Whoever dies will be rewarded by heaven. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem. — Vladimir Lenin

The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it. — Peter F. Hamilton

Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also. — Ulysses S. Grant

Be ashamed to die until you have done something good for mankind. — Vernon Johnson

What the hell was she doing on the nonhostage side of a handgun? — Suzanne Brockmann

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off. — William Henry Harrison

All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong. — Mahatma Gandhi

You have been fraternizing with warewolves overmuch! Military men can be terribly bad for one's verbal concatenation! — Gail Carriger

Stephanos was angry, but he was still a military man, and the best path to victory was following orders. Not exacting revenge. — Evan Currie

Strike hard and fast and do not separate. — Heinz Guderian

I think that the Iraqi ground defenses shot down dozens of missiles. We are in the process of counting all these missiles quickly — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie. — Rick DeStefanis

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. — Groucho Marx

The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array. — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux

Operation Peace for Galilee is not a military operation resulting from the lack of an alternative. — Menachem Begin

The time is not yet ripe to say what happened. When history's ready, then we can talk about it — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Even limited military actions end up carrying with them great costs and unintended consequences. — Barack Obama

I am a pilot and I run a Medical Transport Squad. That means, for most of my life I am living it up in the air." -- USN CAPT Joe Woodhaven — L.A. Kragie

We have employed every police and military unit at our dispo - " "NOT GOOD ENOUGH. — Marissa Meyer

I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes. — Winston Churchill

If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving. — Mahatma Gandhi

The strength of our economy allows us to maintain the mightiest military in the world, effectively enforcing a Pax Americana. — Ted Cruz

In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny. — Charles De Gaulle

After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian. — Chris Kyle

There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service. — Robert A. Heinlein

If you don't want gays in the military, make the uniforms ugly — Joan Rivers

We're not afraid of sanctions. We're not afraid of military invasion. What frightens us is the invasion of western immorality. — Ruhollah Moosavi Khomeini

Peace through strength works. We've got the greatest military in the world. I want them to dominate any potential conflict. — Bobby Jindal

The world relies upon, and America must rely upon, a strong military. — Mitt Romney

There's nothing gay about living life straight — Paul B. Tripp

As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all. — George B. McClellan

It was here I learnt that corporate principles and military principles are basically the same. Insulation. Illusion. Hype. Activity. — Tarun J. Tejpal

Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen. — Bill Mauldin

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. — Mary McCarthy

A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. — Albert Einstein

My workplace is wherever I'm making something, which could be in a field in gold country, or in an abandoned warehouse on a military base. — Adam Savage

In the long run luck is given only to the efficient. — Helmuth James Graf Von Moltke

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

One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score. — Henry A. Kissinger

It has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre ... — Robert Harris

Let us never forget the duty, which we have taken upon us — Adolf Hitler

Military missions are not democratic development aid. — Guido Westerwelle

Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson

Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it. — Gary Sinise

Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking ... If we are to be sure of our liberty, we must be ready to fight for it. — Jonathan M. Wainwright

Success can not be administrated. — Arleigh Burke

Largely because of a shortage of ammunition, the United States would be entirely unable to undertake major military operations for at least a year. — David E. Kaiser

It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States. — Vladimir Putin