Ex Military Quotes

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.

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

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

He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace!

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.

Around the world, America's influence has declined while this president [Barack Obama] has destroyed our military, our allies no longer trust us, and our adversaries no longer respect us.

Only a foolish woman would allow her man to earn his living as a moving target.

My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed.

The instruments of battle are valuable only if one knows how to use them.

The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.

The major force in world history is sheer dumbness.

Too much praise cannot be bestowed on those who managed my artillery.

Do not forget your dogs of war, your big guns, which are the most-to-be respected arguments of the rights of kings.

We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.

Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

I've made this statement many times: If I would have to do it over again, I would have made known the forthcoming Tet Offensive.

Only when a disputed point has long caused bloodshed and disturbance, or when a successful invader (military or theological) insists on a change, is it necessary to draw up a code.

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think.

The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.

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I am a great believer in planning- economic, social, political, military, total world planning.

America loves a winner, and will not tolerate a loser, this is why America has never, and will never, lose a war.

Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

Just drive down that road, until you get blown up

Let us never forget the duty, which we have taken upon us

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.

North Carolina, particularly the 8th District, has long played a key role in our Nation's military forces.

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

What firefighters, and people in our military and cops do is separate from what the rest of us do, basically these people say "I'm going to protect all these strangers."

The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.

There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It's really great.

The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona's military bases are to the defense of our country. We need to do everything we can to protect them.

I didnt go into the NASA program to pick up rocks or to go the moon or anything else. I went in there because I was a military officer, and that was the next notch in my profession.

A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the heads of men.

The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.

True freedom is tolerant. It gives people the right to live and think in new ways.

Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.

Who says I am not under the special protection of God?

The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education, health, and safety of its citizens.

In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish!

It is your attitude, and the suspicion that you are maturing the boldest designs against him, that imposes on your enemy.

Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed

In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.

We all have appointments with the past.