Ex Military Quotes

We will welcome them with bullets and shoes.

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.

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

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.

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

So it's not a matter of the military lying to the press, but it's the job of the military to deny the press any information that will provide aid and comfort to the enemy.

War is the province of chance. In no sphere of human activity is such a margin to be left for this intruder. It increases the uncertainty of every circumstance, and deranges the course of events.

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century.

Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.

The same thinking that has led you to where you are is not going to lead you to where you want to go.

As one Israeli said, "It's a big mistake for Israel to say it 'won' the war, when there was no war. There were no battles...no military enemy in the field."

These are hallowed moments, when every American has reason to express his gratitude to Almighty God that it has been our good fortune to witness the light of this auspicious morn.

I was the only person in the world who thought it was a military duty to appear to be in a good mood.

Just as the world cannot live on wars, so people cannot on revolutions

If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.

For there is one thing we must never forget... the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will an heroic decision arise from a hundred cowards.

I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex.

I was surprised how open and unguarded the military was. I expected more scrutiny, more supervision from command.

In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.

The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.

Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win

If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.

I'm a military baby, and it makes me proud to know that I'm the child of two parents that served our country. I feel very connected to our country, and I'm honored to be an American.

Live for something rather than die for nothing. —George Patton

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

Hit them. Fight them. They are cursed; they are evil.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

...over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target.

Let's go and do jihad

If it wasn't for the military I probably would not have ever come to Bosnia for vacation.

With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.

They are still trying to bomb with artillery and rocket-propelled grenades to hit the Republican Guard who are controlling Saddam International Airport.

Our initial assessment is that they will all die.

There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.

There is a price you pay if you want to train military personnel - they don't all come back.

For even the best of peace training is more theoretical than practical experience ... indirect practical experience may be the more valuable because infinitely wider.

It is only to clear from history that states rarely keep faith with each other, save in so far (and so long) as their promises seem to them to combine with their interests.

Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

The nearer the cutting off point lies to the main force of the enemy, the more immediate the effect; whereas the closer to the strategic base it takes place, the greater the effect.

The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty.

While hitting one must guard ... In order to hit with effect, the enemy must be taken off his guard.

I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67 and that program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us...

The effect to be sought is the dislocation of the opponent's mind and dispositions - such an effect is the true gauge of an indirect approach.

The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.

Today, the tide has turned, we are destroying them.

The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation.

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.