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To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency. — Hank Johnson

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

Know the enemy and know yourself. — Sun Tzu

They've not been able to control any Iraqi city. We're waging war against this snake and we will be victorious. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. (On Vietnam War) — Charles De Gaulle

Tanks are new and special weapon-newer than, as special, and certainly as valuable as the airplane. — George S. Patton

I will always hate war, but will be forever proud of mine. — David Bellavia

They bright whiten all this sepulchre with powdered chloride of lime. It's a perfectly sanitary war. — David Jones

Some of the American military obviously were thinking in terms of fighting a nuclear war. I was opposed to that. — Helmut Schmidt

Laws are inoperative in war — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Jesse and Frank James were the most well-known military-trained gang members — Carter F. Smith

Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of brave men. — George S. Patton

The allure of military life and its heroic promise seem indestructible, but nothing threatens the romance of war more effectively than war itself. — Elizabeth Samet

The fear of war is worse than war itself. — Seneca The Younger

Maybe it's time to stop being a soldier and go home to be a father. And a husband for Deanna. I'm not sure how. — David Bellavia

You really can't blame the military for wanting to go to war [in Iraq]. They've got all these new toys and they want to know whether they work or not. — Andy Rooney

The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time. — Milton Friedman

In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy. — Bob Woodward

The two-war strategy is just a marketing device to justify a high [military] budget. — Merrill McPeak

The power of our example is more important than the strength of our military. — William J. Clinton

We cannot afford to be idle, and though weaker than our opponents in men and military equipments, must endeavor to harass, if we cannot destroy them. — Robert E.Lee

My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel. — Roseanne Barr

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

We were not told how Alexander the Great was the last person in history to successfully 'pacify' what would become Afghanistan, over 2,000 years ago. — Jake Wood

We adapt to our sorrows, I suppose, as unpleasant as they might be. One cannot weep forever. One simply runs dry of tears. — Chris Womersley

The Cold War provided justification for a larger peacetime military, since we were never really at peace, or so the argument went. — Phil Klay

To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away. — Confucius

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

During the war some of the country's sharpest minds had looked as if they had been dragged through a hedge backwards. — Sara Sheridan

The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war. — Menachem Begin

Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part. — George Washington

Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America. — Myra MacPherson

With no draft, the only people who went to war were those who wanted to, or at least those who wanted to join the military. — Tim O'Brien

When Numa died, Rome by the twin disciplines of peace and war was as eminent for self-mastery as for military power. — Livy

In war there is no second prize for the runner-up. — Omar N. Bradley

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. — Martin Luther King Jr.

The United States faces no serious military threats today, yet is constantly at war. — Doug Bandow

No commander was ever privileged to lead a finer force; no commander ever derived greater inspiration from the performance of his troops. — John J. Pershing

No one is fighting for my freedom unless they are doing it on my soil. — Ashly Lorenzana

He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war. — Kurt Vonnegut

The mail service has been excellent out here, and in my opinion this is all that the Air Force has accomplished during the war. — Chesty Puller

I make war on the living, not the dead. — Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war. — Peter DeFazio

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

I think the worst thing in the world is to have the courts decide who to target in the war on terrorism. And courts are not military commanders. — Lindsey Graham

Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots. — Steve Sheinkin

We all know that in war the political and military factors have to complement each other. — Nguyen Cao Ky

Appearances can be misleading. You just never know what's inside someone until he's tested. — Daniel Rodriguez

Military strategy...has become the diplomacy of violence. — Thomas C. Schelling

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

No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That is still true today. — A.J. Muste

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

Our embedded reporters during the war agreed to guidelines established by the military. — Jim Walton

Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars. — George C. Marshall

Africa must remain on the path of democracy. But democracy MUST also remain about the PEOPLE, not about power — Fela Durotoye

Federal Officer: "The arms piled on the ground were not worth 10 cents a ton. — Clint Johnson

A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective. — Sun Tzu

Declarations of war have never been a constitutional requirement for military action abroad. — John Yoo

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

Chickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war. — Paul Fussell

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

Artillery is the god of war. — Joseph Stalin

The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils. — Lord Mountbatten

In every war at some point in time, you do sit down and negotiate. — Michael Mullen

Daddy, I don't like military parades. I never want to be like those people who march rank and file to music - they were given brains by mistake. — Corinne Maier

World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation. — Marshall McLuhan

In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war. — Thomas Jefferson

I find it significant that most military veterans become pacifists. — Michel Templet

I don't fly any awards at the house. Any award you get is usually for something you've done in the past. And I like to keep looking forward. — Garth Brooks

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. — William C. Westmoreland

When you get right down to it, militaries are essentially legalized mafias. — Michel Templet

Afghanistan changed him, but Iraq sculpted him. — Melissa Seligman

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons. — Herodotus

A private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war. — Paul Yingling

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of. — Sebastian Junger

The role of the military is to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place. — George W. Bush

The essence of the Marine Corps experience, I decided, was pain. — Philip Caputo

The World War demonstrated the importance of Field Artillery. The majority of casualties were inflicted by the arm. — John J. Pershing

War makes persons special, peoples cheap. — Brian Spellman

In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it! — Napoleon Bonaparte

Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war. — Noam Chomsky

Verily, there is no dishonor in death at the hands of a far superior enemy. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

One difficulty that someone who has been in military/government service during war has, is reconciling his/her pride with their horror. — Kari Martindale

If everyone loves you, maybe you don't need so many tanks. — Craig Nelson

The leader must be an actor. — George S. Patton

You shouldn't underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him. — George S. Patton

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy. — Henry Kissinger

I've had people tell me to get over it. I politely tell them, 'How about if I chop off your finger and see if it grows back? — Jim Sheeler

It is fatal to enter an war without the will to win it. — Douglas MacArthur

Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement. — Theodore L. Cuyler

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true. — Ulysses S. Grant

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

For they were unseasoned, nor inured, not knowing this to be much less than the beginning of sorrow. — David Jones

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

War makes extremely heavy demands on the soldier's strength and nerves. For this reason, make heavy demands on your men in peacetime exercises. — Erwin Rommel

War?' The word held too much definition for three letters. — Shannon A. Thompson

But how intolerable bright the morning is where we who are alive and remain, walk lifted up, carried forward by an effective word. — David Jones

War, if reason prevails, is waged to obtain a better peace than that which existed prior to the hostilities. — Bela Kiraly