Ex Military Quotes

It is part of a sailor's life to die well.

In a military operation, the command and control elements are a legitimate target.

My parents got divorced and military school gave me a structure. A lot of kids my age were children of divorced parents. They didn't know what to do with the kids.

San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.

Duarte is a moderate when it comes to civilian control of the military and curbing death squads. On economics, the man is almost a Marxist.

Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.

I decided to join the military to give back to my country and help pay for college.

Military folk," Neal said with exaggerated patience, shaking his head. "The only way you know to solve problems is by beating them with a stick.

The military is a meritocracy. It's an up or out. It's shaped like a pyramid.

The military tends to be a traditional place. Traditional culture, traditional men are often attracted to serving in the military.

Corporate principles and military principles are basically the same. Insulation. Illusion. Hype. Activity.

Ronald Reagan reignited the American economy, rebuilt the Military, bankrupted the Soviet Union and defeated Soviet Communism. I will do the same thing.

There's a real danger when people get distracted by peripheral issues. They get distracted by democracy building. They get distracted about military conflicts. We need to focus on defeating jihadism.

I think civilian Americans support the military very much.

Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.

The U.K.-U.S. defense relationship is the broadest, deepest and most advanced of any two countries, sharing military hardware and expertise.

Truth and reason are eternal. They have prevailed. And they will eternally prevail; however, in times and places they may be overborne for a while by violence, military, civil, or ecclesiastical.

We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education.

The military has a very prickly relationship with the press.

I have drawn a very close bond to all the military people.

I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.

I have served in the Congress during two wars and I have seen the impacts on our military, on their families and on our national deficit.

Our police, our hard-working police, that our extraordinarily committed and dedicated military personnel, I'm really pleased that they are getting a good paid parental leave scheme.

What the commission that myself and Leon Panetta is trying to do is analyze this in two respects. First of all, what's the right military response and security response?

I've always been fascinated by the military, the discipline they have and the sacrifices they make to defend the country. It's something I've always been interested in.

The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.

President Barack Obama started by accepting the military's counterinsurgency, but came out of Afghanistan having decided that counterinsurgency actually doesn't work.

I am an Air Force brat - that's the terminology they use for military kids who are traveling constantly.

Europe is slow to react, it is lagging behind in competitiveness, there are problems with demography, population, serious problems with security, internal security and military capabilities.

No government can be trusted, that does not trust its own people with military-style arms of greater weight and power than those possessed by the central government itself.

In my opinion, provision of military support to illegal structures runs counter to the principles of modern international law and the United Nations Charter.

It is a major world power, and today it is an economic and military leader - no doubt about it. That is why America has a strong influence on the situation in the world in general.

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.

Nobody has yet found a way of bombing that can prevent foot soldiers from walking.

I mean, if Pearl Harbor came along, you could have said the planning was wrong by the military ahead of time or maybe the battleships shouldn't have all been in the harbor and all that kind of thing.

In brief, we do more research on men in prison, men in the military, and men in general than we do on women for the same reason we do more research on rats than we do on humans.

Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.

It's important. One of the principles in the United States is civilian control of the military.

What I learned in the military is that gossip starts early and it stays forever.

Everybody in the military has a reputation, and usually it doesn't come out to the public.

I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.

In the whole history of this country, we have probably won more friends from the power of our example than from the power of our military.

The power of our example is more important than the strength of our military.

A lot of wonderful people love their country and hate the military.

We [United States] are the only military superpower. We have no idea how long this is going to last, so we ought to get every bad guy we can and fix every problem we can.

All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.

Great indeed is Fear; but it is not, as our military enthusiasts believe and try to make us believe, the only stimulus known for awakening the higher ranges of men's spiritual energy.

A lot of guns there's no need for civilians to own those those are for military

Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.