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Maxim 2:
A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.
-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries — Howard Tayler

It is only by doing things others have not that one can advance. — George S. Patton

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

If only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are being used by the owning elite's as a publicly subsidized capitalist goon squad — Smedley Butler

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

convince you there's life after the military, though," Tyler added. Joe towered behind his wife's chair, massaging — Kate Aster

The Afghan security forces will always have the help of the U.S. American military to ensure that Afghanistan never fails. — Lindsey Graham

U.S. military action in Iraq: It sure didn't work out well last time. Let's not make that mistake again. — Alan Grayson

I think it's OK to talk about your military service, but there's a fine line between, you know, too much and just about right. — Bob Dole

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

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

The U.S. is just in a class by itself in military expenses. It basically matches the rest of the world, and it's far more advanced. — Noam Chomsky

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

I do think we need for a troop to be able to house his family. That's an important part of building morale in the military. — George W. Bush

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

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

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

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

Let's get China to leak a memo that says they want to build military bases on Mars. We'd be on Mars in twelve months. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly. — Chuck D

When a man that attractive licks his lips, a girl's got to look. And imagine ... — Cat Johnson

The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight. — Homer

Tell me again about how it's impossible to do and how it can't be done, then get out of my way and watch me do it. — Mak W Boyer

That's it. Keep that edge. Fight like there's no tomorrow. — Henry V. O'Neil

Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold. — Rupert Brooke

You can't change the past. It's already done. Looking back only keeps you there. — Donna Grant

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

America must always be the world's paramount military power, but we can magnify our power through alliances. — John F. Kerry

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

That's my attitude on the military. I don't like telling the enemy what I'm doing. — Donald Trump

It won't take weeks ... Our military machine will crush Iraq in a matter of days and there's no question that it will. — Bill O'Reilly

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

You must do your damdest and win. — George S. Patton

Slowly but surely, the U.S. military is being converted into a global oil-protection service. — Michael Klare

The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible. — George S. Patton

It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias. — Ted Cruz

One only has to look at the performance of the economy to understand how it shapes the perspective of America's youth about military service. — John M. McHugh

A nation may be moved by its statesmen and defined by its military but it's usually remembered for its artists. — John Steinbeck

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

Hannah: What's your plan?
Claire: Go get him
Hannah: Honey, that is not a plan. That's what we in the military call an objective. — Rachel Caine

There's an old military saying that a plan only works perfectly when you try it out on the enemy. — Manel Loureiro

I certainly don't like a label that suggests I believe that the military is the solution to most of the world's problems. — Paul Wolfowitz

In just one year, the expenditure of of the U.S.'s military budget is equivalent to the entire 50-year running budget of NASA combined. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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

Funny how the U.S. sends in the military to fight "terrorists" in any country which has resources we want ... — Ziad K. Abdelnour

There will be boots on the ground if there's to be any hope of success in the strategy. — Robert M. Gates

PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope. — Ambrose Bierce

Stop," he murmured, or at least that's what he meant to say. It came out sounding more like "Yes," which probably wasn't the same thing at all. — Tawna Fenske

If you want to serve the country, you recognize it's rough and tumble. And it's nothing like serving your country in the military. — Mitt Romney

I think it wasn't the Cirque du Soleil audition that was my once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, it's Rory. — Wendy S. Marcus

It were better to be a soldier's widow than a coward's wife. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality. — D.J. Cotrona

Leaders must be good listeners. It's rule number one, and it's the most powerful thing they can do to build trusted relationships. — Lee Ellis

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

Odyssey Dawn? That's not a military operation. That's a Carnival Cruise ship. — Stephen Colbert

[A]s military history reveals, a bad plan is often better than no plan, especially if the people on the other side think it's a good plan. — Adam Gopnik

Perpetual peace is a futile dream. — George S. Patton

If you look at how the federal government spends our money, it's an insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army. — Ezra Klein

There's a tradition of public service in my family. I'm one of three boys that joined the military. My father was in the Peace Corps. — Phil Klay

Military glory
that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood
that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy ... — Abraham Lincoln

It's clear that the United States has more to give the world than military bases. — Cynthia McKinney

It's never good to owe money to a guy with a cellar full of military hardware. Especially not when he rides with an outlaw biker gang. — Craig Schaefer

Ambition, the soldier's virtue. — William Shakespeare

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter. — Winston S. Churchill

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar. — Winston Churchill

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

There's a very particular way that the military speaks. There's a lot of profanity and a lot of acronyms. — Phil Klay

Our safety requires a long-term military presence in the Middle East because that's where the plans to attack us are emanating. — Rudy Giuliani

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

He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind's eye. It was one of the secrets of his military success. — H.W. Brands

I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind. — George S. Patton

I think it's really important for people to hear what our men and women in the military have to say. — Joe Nichols

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

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

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

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

A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances. — George S. Patton

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

My mouth only does one thing well, and talking's not it. — Melissa Cutler

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

Moving into an unoccupied village when there's no opposition, I don't call that a military victory. — Norman Schwarzkopf

It is nearly two o'clock in the morning, and Tom Bolan is ass-over-head, military-grade, wearing-more-booze-than-he's-ingesting drunk. — Robert Jackson Bennett

A military life had no charms for me, and I had not the faintest idea of staying in the army even if I should be graduated, which I did not expect, — Ulysses S. Grant

The U.S. has a stronger military than Israel, but, but don't short-change Israel, either. Don't short-change them. — Benjamin Netanyahu

We have the world's best military, even though he (President Barack Obama) has done everything he can to diminish it. — Benjamin Carson

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

People think of the military as being about guns and fighting wars, but it's really about service to country and community. — Austin Stowell

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

Success demands a high level of logistical and organizational competence. — George S. Patton

As long as we only have to lie to the enemy, it's honest enough for me.
-Captain Tagon — Howard Tayler

If you liked El Salvador, you're going to love Colombia. It's the same death squads, the same military aid, and the same whitewash from Washington. — Carlos Salinas De Gortari

To change one's field of influence is to change the course of one's life. — Jenny Reese Clark

Where's the fun in that? — Julie Ann Walker

They [Republicans] assume that military action always shows strength, while avoiding military action always shows weakness. That's just crazy. — Kevin Drum

Many in the U.S. military believe ISIS needs to be immediately, and repeatedly, smashed by American drones and warplanes. — Richard Engel

A protect-yourself-first-and-foremost idea has subverted the mission of law-enforcement officers, just as it may have degraded the military's. — Ann Medlock

I am not a supporter of Israel's military policy, let alone any kind of Zionist. — James Lasdun