Ex Military Quotes

The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.

For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy.

To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.

From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.

In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.

Only the dead will know the end of the war.

It was possibly the most circumspect advance in the history of military maneuvers, right down at the bottom end of the scale that things like the Charge of the Light Brigade are at the top of.

If you don’t have a good idea of what to do next after using military force, then don’t use it in the first place.

America's military is the best in the world, but this president [Barack Obama] is hollowing out our military. We need a commander in chief that believes in American exceptionalism again.

The Second Amendment was designed explicitly to protect weapons that would be useful in a military context.

Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I somehow wound up at the National Theatre, though, and then I was definitely on my way.

To "bear arms" is, in itself, a military term. One does not bear arms against a rabbit.

A military life had no charms for me, and I had not the faintest idea of staying in the army even if I should be graduated, which I did not expect.

I reckon that there won't be an intervention in the near future, because Georgia's military adventure revealed the weakness of the Russian army.

Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.

You know, in the WikiLeaks cables, the Chinese discovered that Kevin Rudd was urging the Americans to keep the military option open against them. This is hardly a friendly gesture.

I believe serious progress (in the abolition of war) can be achieved only when men become organized on an international scale and refuse, as a body, to enter military or war service.

Thus, though I have heard of successful military operations that were clumsy but swift, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.

Our country represents nothing but peaceful intentions toward all the earth, but it ought not to fail to maintain such a military force as comports with the dignity and security of a great people.

It is a major sin to break a contract, especially in military situations.

Isn't it a shame military doctors couldn't be as good as military sunglasses?

My God, I wish we had [the] 9th Australian Division with us this morning.

Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists.

International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.

A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war.

He who would save liberty must put his trust in democracy.

The shovel is the brother to the gun.

The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.

The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

There is only one decisive victory: the last.

From their maneuvers and their terrific speed I am certain their flight performance was greater than any aircraft known today.

Well then I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?

U.S. analysts estimate that Russian military expenditures have tripled during the Bush-Putin years, in large measure a predicted reaction to the Bush administration's militancy and aggressiveness.

I used to have a military officer travelling with me at all times with a suitcase - referred to as the nuclear football - in case it had to be used.

The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions.

A beaten general is disgraced forever.

Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.

Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine.

We have a president [Barack Obama] that doesn't know what's happening, and when it comes to the military.

Worth, courage, honor, these indeed Your sustenance and birthright are.

Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms.

The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

Normal military trade is undoubtedly part of the normal State-to-State relations.

America has the greatest people on earth in our military, but they don't have the right equipment and their equipment is old.

This Administration has led us into an area without vision. Bush has no clear understanding of what is being asked of the citizens, and the military is under his direction.

Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians.