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In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish!
— Eddie Rickenbacker
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
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
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
The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled.
— Guy Gavriel Kay
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
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
The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.
— Milton Friedman
Here beneath the towering pines, by the river blueFarragut will ever stand, alma mater true — Bruce A. Sarte
The military hospital is the most cheerful of militaty buildings because there are so few uniforms inside.
— Alfred Jarry
The power of our example is more important than the strength of our military.
— William J. Clinton
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
I was the only person in the world who thought it was a military duty to appear to be in a good mood.
— Pat Conroy
If Russia, if Russia had the same military power that America did, earth would be called Russia.
— Greg Gutfeld
In 1997, the government spent $37 billion on military research and development, nearly two-thirds of what the entire world spent on the same. In
— Morris Berman
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Latin America moved decisively away from military rule and toward civilian democracy.
— Stephen Kinzer
I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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 U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.
— Jose Saramago
My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it.
— John W. Vessey Jr.
For they were unseasoned, nor inured, not knowing this to be much less than the beginning of sorrow.
— David Jones
I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.
— Winston Churchill
We have no hesitation in declaring that we are a military nation- in the cause of Kodo and the highest morality.
— Sadao Araki
("intelligence" in the military meaning; a man in a suit can be just as stupid as anybody else - only he had better not be),
— Robert A. Heinlein
There's a very particular way that the military speaks. There's a lot of profanity and a lot of acronyms.
— Phil Klay
Alone. "A military unit is a fine thing when it works," he said. "But it usually don't work. A solitary feat of arms is better, if the foe is worthy.
— Larry McMurtry
I think it's really important for people to hear what our men and women in the military have to say.
— Joe Nichols
We aren't heroes out there in the military. We're just Patriots.
— Marcus Luttrell
liberal society, in its heart, wants not only domination of the military, but acquiesence of the military toward the liberal view of life.
— T.R. Fehrenbach
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
Obedience alone gives the right to command.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stephanos was angry, but he was still a military man, and the best path to victory was following orders. Not exacting revenge.
— Evan Currie
The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war.
— Menachem Begin
Let us never forget the duty, which we have taken upon us
— Adolf Hitler
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
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
Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.
— Rick DeStefanis
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
The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down.
— Chuck Yeager
I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes.
— Winston Churchill
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
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
After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian.
— Chris Kyle
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
History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem.
— Vladimir Lenin
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
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
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
The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty.
— Dante Alighieri
Military Wives - Sacrificing Months of Sex for the Country.
— Aditi Mathur Kumar
The Guns, Thank God, The Guns ...
— Rudyard Kipling
It has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre ...
— Robert Harris
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
In the long run luck is given only to the efficient.
— Helmuth James Graf Von Moltke