Ex Military Quotes

Our artillery... The Germans feared it almost more than anything we had.

Every Sailor has the potential to lead," said Mullen, "I don't care if it's a seaman recruit or someone higher ranking than myself. Where there's a will, there's a way.

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty.

The Conqueror is always a lover of peace: he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.

Dare, will, keep silence.

I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.

A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

By perseverance, study, and eternal desire, any man can become great.

A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.

So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.

Make your plans to fit the circumstances.

The governments and the hard-headed military establishment and the general conservative part of America have never taken much interest in democracy, anyway.

We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.

If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

They taught me that no man could be their leader except he ate the ranks' food, wore their clothes, lived level with them, and yet appeared better in himself.

If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.

A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.

Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military.

In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.

The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful citizen is he who goes about heavily armed.

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

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence.

A force engaged is out of the hand of its commander.

Frederick liked to say that three men behind the enemy were worth fifty in front of him.

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

It take 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.

Rascals, do you want to live forever?

Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a feeling of false security.

The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.

Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent.

Under Syrian law, a journalist is not allowed to report on military matters. This may be wrong or right, but that's just the way it is.

The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.

A military mindset is objectively analyzing a planned course of action and anticipating the likely consequences before you take that action.

.....they had burnt and destroyed around 30 vehicles, including tanks and APC's and damaged three enemy helicopters. God bless the fighters of the Arab Socialist Ba'th Party.

Military intelligence is a meaningless phrase because the two words are mutually exclusive.

The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.

Your job is to point that rifle into the other guy's face and shoot him dead.

In the military, as in any organization, giving the order might be the easiest part. Execution is the real game.

The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever.

He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing.

If we build our military up to Ronald Reagan levels, [Vladimir] Putin's not going to push us anywhere because he can't match us.

Choose to win Get mad, then get over it.

For me, it's an honor for the military to ask me to go to Iraq, Afghanistan, or GITMO. I'm happy to go.

A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him