Ex Military Quotes
The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.
Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.
The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.
The fight against drug trafficking is a false pretext for the United States to install military bases.
We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.
Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates. Instead they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service. The very spirit of rebellion is reprehensible.
War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
Airpower has become predominant, both as a deterrent to war, and-in the eventuality of war-as the devastating force to destroy an enemy's potential and fatally undermine his will to wage war.
In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.
Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be considered unpatriotic.
The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils.
I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police.
We must all realise that the Israeli society is a military society - men and women. We cannot describe the society as civilian .... they are not civilians or innocent.
When the enemy is driven back, we have failed, and when he is cut off, encircled and dispersed, we have succeeded.
Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.
Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity
Heroism, or military glory, is much admired by the generality of mankind. They consider it as the most sublime kind of merit. Menof cool reflection are not so sanguine in their praises of it.
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
Nothing remains static in war or military weapons, and it is consequently often dangerous to rely on courses suggested by apparent similarities in the past.
Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on?
This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character.
War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.
War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.
In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.
In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments.
Now this brings me to my main topic - our military strength - more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining the economic health that supports our security.
It was when I entered the military preparatory school and put on its uniform, that a feeling of strength came to me, as if I had become master of my own destiny.
