Ex Military Quotes

To have more, you must first be more.

National security - the military is the first thing we should spend money on. You have to fully fund that first. And then you should be paying for everything else.

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

My style is definitely not ladylike - frills and bows kinda scare me - but I like the military look because I love that olive green khaki color.

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.

Success demands a high level of logistical and organizational competence.

If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself.

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.

They think we are retarded. They are retarded.

Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.

On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.

In Pakistan anti-American protesters set a Kentucky Fried chicken restaurant on fire. The protesters mistakenly thought they were attacking high-ranking U.S. military official Colonel Sanders.

To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision.

Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country?

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

While our nation faces many challenges that must be met regarding homeland security and our military readiness, it is imperative that we live within our means and wisely spend taxpayer dollars.

Actually, I have a lot of hobbies, but I've kept up with model-building the longest. In particular, I love military models.

Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations.

My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

We would fight not for the political future of a distant city [Danzig], rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.

When in doubt, ATTACK!

The Iraqi people are capable of fighting to the victorious end which God wants... the blood of our martyrs will burn you!

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

It is not the critic who counts

Shoot straight, you bastards! Don't make a mess of it!

Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.

Music has shaped men’s fashion and transposed in a playful and witty manner its riding or military heritage. It is difficult to figure out who leads but music and fashion are connected genetically.

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

Here's to us, who's like us Damn few, and they're all dead.

The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

An untrained or uneducated Marine ... deployed to the combat zone is a bigger threat to mission accomplishment ... than the enemy.

There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

Any comparison between the military dictatorship and democracy can only come from those who do not value the Brazilian democracy.

Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing they may not achieve.

I admire the military. I guess in a world of villains and heroes, they're my heroes. Their dedication, their commitment, their discipline, their code of ethics.

The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.

Being, be bold and venture to be wise.

According to recent opinion polls, a large majority of Iraqis believe that the U.S. military has no intention to leave Iraq, and that it would stay even is asked by the Iraqi government to leave.

The majority can never replace the man

A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless.

He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace!

My men have sometimes failed to take a position, but to defend one, never!

Retreat, hell! We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction.

For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, arent we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

The first and absolute requirement of strategic air power in this war was control of the air in order to carry out sustained operations without prohibitive losses.

We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts.