Ex Military Quotes

The infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad... Be assured, Baghdad is safe, protected. Iraqis are heroes.

Yesterday, we slaughtered them and we will continue to slaughter them.

We civilians defend our own right to free speech. The military in Iraq does not defend our right to free speech.

The situation of having to belong to a state to which one does not wish is no less onerous if it is the result of an election than if one must endure it as the consequence of a military conquest.

And this - this board was - was impanelled in 1951. And it's gone through ups and downs in how the secretaries have used it. But I have put a premium on that advisory board.

I am not a politician or a military strategist. I am just a citizen voicing my opinions.

One hundred infidels committed suicide as they entered the holy city of Baghdad. Their tanks will become their tombs.

I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.

Pakistan could be uneasy on the position of Indian military. But both the countries should take a bold decision, breaking from their past, to transform their relationship.

Believe me that every man you see in a military uniform is not a hero.

The most powerful military country in the world, America - which makes all the guns, all the machinery, all the bullets - taught us how to shoot the guns.

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.

Slowly but surely, the U.S. military is being converted into a global oil-protection service.

The starting point for the understanding of war is the understanding of human nature.

In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.

To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.

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.

In America, we have a depleted military. It has to be helped, has to be fixed.

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.

The military played polo. Polo, really, started as a game to train for war.

Our military is a disaster.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity.

They will try to enter Baghdad, and I think this is where their graveyard will be.

Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.

The great military leaders of the past have gone, their empires have crumbled and burned to ashes. But the empire of Jesus, built solidly and majestically on the foundation of love, is still growing.

The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.

Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power.

As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.

This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.

In Critical and baffling situations, it is always best to return to first principle and simple action

How can you lay siege to a whole country? Who is really under siege now? Baghdad cannot be besieged.

Bush is a very stupid man. The American people are not stupid, they are very clever. I can't understand how such clever people came to elect such a stupid president.

I blame al-Jazeera - they are marketing for the Americans!

Men of thought and men of action, clear the Way!

Yes. The all-volunteer force is comprised of a very small percentage of the population. Therefore, fewer citizens have a personal interest in military matters and are not personally impacted.

Today we slaughtered them in the airport. They are out of Saddam International Airport

Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.

We will be victorious, and they will be defeated.

I went to school on a military base in Germany. I got a lot of my clothes at the army surplus store.

The military has no constant form, just as water has no constant shape - adapt as you face the enemy, without letting them know beforehand what you are going to do.

The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.

Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.

I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.