Ex Military Quotes

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.

I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not Honor more.

History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem.

To dare, and again dare, and forever dare!

All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.

Sunglasses are a bit like watches for me - a real obsession. My favourites are Oakleys, Ray-Bans and Wileys, which are worn by the U.S. military.

He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long.

I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.

Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.

I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.

We need to increase our military spending. We need to deal with a no- fly zone in Syria, a safe zone.

I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that will cease to be a haven, the very petri dish of international terrorism.

The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.

Our military doesn't defend our American people. Our military is the strong-arm muscle of corporations.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, how are you going to get them to die for their country?

Ambition, the soldier's virtue.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Since shotguns are not military weapons, your local sporting goods dealer will have good information about them, as long as you aren't black, Spanish, or a white freak.

No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.

The Niger Delta is an occupied territory. Citizens raise their hands in the creeks each time they see the military

Go forward until the last round is fired and the last drop of gas is expended...then go forward on foot!

As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!

Audacity, audacity, always audacity.

The leader must be an actor.

Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.

We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone.

Without supplies no army is brave.

The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning.

Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.

Why don't church leaders forbid Catholics from joining the military with the same fervor they tell Catholics to stay away from abortion clinics?

Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.

Democracy is better than tyranny.

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.

Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.

Military men are the scourges of the world.

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)

Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it, spend time with your families.

I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.

Effective immediately, transgender Americans may serve openly, and they can no longer be discharged or otherwise separated from the military just for being transgender.

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.

It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

If our airforces are never used, they have achieved their finest goal.

The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.