Ex Military Quotes

I cannot approve of your method of operation, you proceed like a bewildered idiot, taking not the least notice of my orders.

There is not a revolution that succe Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee to change the constitution.

The value of the space program is beyond science, it's beyond military; it's a cultural shift in how we think of our place in the universe.

But no one told me that when you're in the military, they own you.

Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years.

Of course, individuals are responsible for individual actions - the pilots who flew over Pearl Harbor and dropped bombs on those ships did a terrible thing as part of an attack on a military base.

Technologies for stimulating the brain and controlling the mind can have benefits, but they have a dark side that military and intelligence planners have been exploiting for decades

The military has a very long relationship with Hollywood that dates back to the silent film era.

The military defeat of an oppressive regime is important, but it does not answer our problems. It is where our problems begin, since social change cannot be reduced to a military solution.

The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.

Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.

The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.

We should therefore be opposed to institutional barriers to that freedom: Military dictatorships, for example. Or states run by a Central Committee.

A troop surge in Baghdad would put more American troops at risk to address a problem that is not a military problem.

People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.

The best way to create cost overruns in any military acquisition is to change course midstream. That is exactly what Donald Trump wants to do here.

For pleasure, I'll read military sf, or Elmore Leonard capers, anything that's fast and fun. Otherwise, I mostly pick at books, without any clear focus.

They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that, it comes down to if the general is favored by fate and the spirits.

Japan redefined world power. They showed you could become a world power without having a military.

Working together, America's military, Iraqi security forces and the Iraqi people have won a major battle in the war on terrorism.

For me, Sun Tzu's statement that military force is based upon deception is an extraordinary statement.

I'm 100 percent serious. I've been fighting for equality for women's issues my entire life, in the military included.

The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world.

Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.

We have tried to substitute mass for purpose. We have tried to regain military potency of defense by making it gigantic, unwieldy, complex. It never works.

If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the I.R.A. for it.

I had what I would consider a normal upbringing and, which to me, a normal American up - upbringing for an American male child almost gears you towards going into the military.

The military is sort of the ultimate test of proving that you're a man, and certainly that whole idea was very much uppermost in my mind when I joined the Army.

Given this president [Donald Trump] and his lack of military experience, I think it actually might be a good thing to have someone who understands the military very deeply to be counseling him.

[General James Mattis] a very talented individual. He's - has a personal library of about 10,000 books and he's read most of them on military history and strategy and so forth.

I understand the needs of both the military and the veteran, and that has helped me tremendously as a congressman. I am proud to serve on the House Committee on Veterans Affairs.

I don't believe you can contain ideas by military force.

Who is it that said that 'you have not converted a man because you have silenced him?' This is true of the use of the military on people.

In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.

Politics is not like an ocean voyage or a military campaign... something which leaves off as soon as reached. It is not a public chore to be gotten over with. It is a way of life.

A cause breaks or exalts a soldier's strength; unless that cause is just, shame will make him throw his weapons away.

Those officers and men who were immediately under my observation, evinced the greatest gallantry, and I have no doubt that all others conducted themselves as became American officers and seamen.

America is the strongest empire ever, with the largest military. We spend ten times what the Russians do. And they have equal nuclear ability as we do, because they're precise.

America is the only place where man is full-grown!

If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.

It is the act of a coward to wish for death.

Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession - not conscious planning - provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.

Hannah: What's your plan? Claire: Go get him Hannah: Honey, that is not a plan. That's what we in the military call an objective.

The military gave me structure and process. That reflects on the way I believe we should handle legislative matters. If we do it that way in any field, the results are usually better.

I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military.

We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching.

I hate that Mosul is falling, but I also think that for 10 years we have supplied the Iraqis and they can't stand up and do anything to defend their country, and it is all up to us?

You've got to hae ground forces that are capable of going after them and rooting them out.

If you go back into military history, the person who's leading the troops ought to be in with the troops and not just standing on the backline sending them into battle.

I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just mean military, persevering against any challenge. I still believe in that.