Ex Military Quotes

Without the threat of death, there's no reason to live... at all.

On 9/11, 2001, the Navy stood at 316 ships. By 2008, after one of the great military buildups in American history, we were at 278 ships and had 49,000 fewer sailors.

Night gangsters! For this crime I will exact a thousand fold revenge!

After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian.

We know that priorities are amiss in the world when a man gets a military medal of honor for killing another man and a dishonorable discharge for loving one.

In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.

Our military thought that they couldn't get to Pearl Harbor, that it was too long a journey from Japan to get there, and they proved us wrong.

We are all proud that through God's powerful aid, we have become once more true Germans

Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.

I don't take criticism lying down.

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.

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

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

They feed the crocodile in the hope that he will eat them last.

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

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

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 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.

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

I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I have in mind repeated statements by Japanese military men containing threats against other states.

I can't see how a single man could spend his time to better advantage than in the Marines.

Use humility to make the enemy haughty. Tire them by flight. Cause division among them. When they are unprepared, attack and make your move when they do not expect it.

It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression.

Hope encourages men to endure and attempt everything; in depriving them of it, or in making it too distant, you deprive them of their very soul.

Only great and general battles can produce great results

The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.

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

Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.

The Air Force comes in every morning and says, 'Bomb, bomb, bomb' ... And then the State Department comes in and says, 'Not now, or not there, or too much, or not at all.'

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country.

Men and women serving in the military deserve better than what they're giving - what we're giving them. They don't know what they're going to be doing tomorrow.

I basically - I don't like tattoos, unless you're a firefighter who has a tattoo that has to do with that or a military guy. That's - those are people who should have tattoos.

Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.

REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.

The Australian divisions and the New Zealanders had become what they were to remain for the rest of the war the spearhead of the British Army

The immediate cause of World War III is the military preparation of it.

There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.

I have always considered Saipan the decisive battle of the Pacific offensive...(it was) the naval and military heart and brain of the Japanese defence strategy.

Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians.

The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.

There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!

Keep conscience clear, then never fear.

Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.

He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

Why is it that the same people who have the least confidence in the police and the military are the most willing to allow only the police and the military to have guns?

The only things those people have that you don't is guts. Do you wanna live forever?