Ex Military Quotes

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.

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.

The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ.

Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.

I have made it a top priority for my administration to deepen cooperation with Israel across the whole spectrum of security issues - intelligence, military, technology.

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.

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.

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.

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.'

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.

Excited. In a good way. I've been training my whole life for this.

Military pay has been allowed to lag behind to the point where career enlisted men with families to feed have been forced to resort to food stamps.

I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.

The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river.

The president and I sat down in the Oval Office, and he expressed very clearly that what he wants from me is my best professional military advice.

Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

They [China] have indicated that they’re trying to develop nuclear capability and they want to develop more aircraft carriers like we have. So yes, we have to consider them a military threat.

My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.

We will welcome them with bullets and shoes.

Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.

Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs.

Donald Trump has made it clear, he wants to make a priority of national security, rebuilding our military, but he wants to do it in a fiscally responsible way.

The United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets of the Assad regime.

The military is not a social experiment. The purpose of the military is kill people and break things.

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.

The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it will be met possibly with a protest or a demonstration.

I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

The Army is the most outstanding institution in every country, for it alone makes possible the existence of all civic institutions.

When you have got military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, they're intended for one purpose. And that is to inflict as much damage on human beings in as short as time as possible.

I went to Harvard High because it was a great school. That it happened to be a military school was just a part of it. I gained from the discipline there.

Conquer land like Napoleon, military bomb fest We want sanitary food, planetary conquest

I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.

Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight. But roaring Bill, who killed him, thought it right.

A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.

Never forget those who were killed. Never let rest those who killed them.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

The Army has carried the American... ideal to its logical conclusion... Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on the grounds of ability.

If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.

I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame.

The devil is in the details, and everything we do in the military is a detail.

I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.

Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak.

I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.

The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.