Ex Military Quotes

The leading members of ISIS were either tortured in US military prisons or in the prisons of the Shi'a government which the Americans put in place.

Peace cannot be achieved except after the cessation of military escalation and the economic and financial siege.

It's perfectly natural to desire more troops when engaged in a military operation facing serious obstacles, and the more troops you have, probably, the [lower the] risk of causalities.

Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty

Every book of tactics in the regiment was in use from morning until night, and the officers and non-commissioned officers were always studying the problems presented at the schools.

We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength,

It is fatal to enter an war without the will to win it.

We sleep peaceably in our beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf"--Opening to "My Father's Son, " attributed to George Orwell

I've got to tell you what, the soldier doesn't fight very hard for a leader who is going to shoot him, okay, on his own whim. That's not what military leadership is all about.

Very few people in the USA realize that a nuclear war was waged with nature in the southwest by their own military.

You know that when ex-military personnel start assassinating their own government's agents that something funky is going on.

Mounting tensions in Eastern Europe send shivers down the spine. Barely a quarter of a century after the end of the Cold War we seem to be sliding inexorably towards another.

War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.

What is the difference? Tell me what is the difference between you and me. We both kill for what we want, " the man asks."We lived here first.

Generals, on the average, are far less bellicose than journalists or patriotic housewives: They know the horrors of a war and they dislike any break in the routine

My family says they are proud of me. Of course, I would rather hear this than the contrary, but I cannot say that I am proud of myself, so I find that I cannot 'talk about it'.

The first gang members who joined the military were known as the Hounds, a group of former New York gang members.

Stupid Wars are easy to start but hard to end.

You speak Arabic? Tell him my name is Infidel Redeemed by Christ.

If freedom is free and none need worry, then what blood drops for thee?

Sergeant Tin said it would be easier to just call you Corporal. She said you go back and forth, promoted one day and busted the next.

She lost herself in the kiss, moving her body against his, her excitement rising, the tension inside her spinning tighter and tighter.

Jesse and Frank James were the most well-known military-trained gang members

Congress has mandated an annual report on street gang, outlaw biker, and domestic extremist activity in the military since 2008.

Members of every major street gang, outlaw biker, and domestic extremist group have been found in a number of military branches.

Gang members have joined the military since the mid-1800s.

Gangs have had connections to the U.S. Military in every period since the founding of the country.

Military Veterans have become gang members since the late 1700s.

Six guns rattling rattling boom boom boomWords and flags folding, folding, foldedThe knell tolls ding ding ding ding ....

After the 'war to end war' they seem to have been pretty successful in Paris at making a 'Peace to end Peace.

There is strong. There is Army Strong. And then there is Army Wife Strong.

Apparently officers are not ‘men’. Officers are ‘officers’.

She oozes the kind of over-confidence that only comes to people who wear deep red lipstick and sparkly tissue sarees in bright daylight.

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible, and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.

Most people today couldn't tell a bombardier from a brigadier" - said during a lecture in aid of the Army Benevolent Fund in 2009

...She says with that mistyfar-away look in her eyes. Like conjunctivitis.

One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.

I wanted that future officer to weigh decisions with a supple mind and to be comfortable with nuance and uncertainty.

Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.

Never leap into battle, when you may come quietly to victory at a walk.

Hurricanes couldn’t remove you from my mind. You’re my world and I’m incapable of not loving you.

To have the opportunity to know your parents is to have the opportunity to truly know yourself.

Take your time.Stay away from the easy going.Never take the same way twice.Gunny Arndt's rules for successful reconnaissance Guadalcanal 1942

In times of war, as in life, surround yourself with people of value, virtue and high morals, because it's always better to lose, perish and vanish in glory than to live in shame.

This many pretty girls in the room, all watching you boys like you’re a wedding-reception one-night stand waiting to happen—

Holy swoonballs!

My ex wants to come and rescue me.’‘Too late! I already rescued you. Who does this guy think he is?

Heroism doesn’t always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history. Sometimes a chicken can save a man’s life.

I think—” Anakin kicked his heel against the polished marble floor. “I think I hate it when I can’t stop my men from getting hurt. From dying. I think—