Ex Military Quotes

You can do everything with bayonets, but you are not able to sit on them

Peacekeeping is not a job for soldiers, but only soldiers can do it.

Yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and tenpence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow!

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

Chickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war.

Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.

My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.

Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.

Computers get better faster than anything else ever. A child's PlayStation today is more powerful than a military supercomputer from 1996.

A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons.

In this era of uncertainty and conflict, the United States - blessed with the world's strongest military, most ingenious economy, and most tolerant society - remains a model and leader to the world.

Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

I still need Marines who can shoot and salute. But I need Marines who can fix jet engines and man sophisticated radar sets, as well.

Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.

In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, but westward, look, the land is bright.

The Marines have landed and the situation is well in hand.

Our warriors are no longer limited to the people who fly the airplanes...Our entire force is a warrior force. Being a warrior is not an AFSC, ...it's a condition of the heart.

...The Marines have been the first to land-on embattled beaches throughout the world-we share the unfaltering confidence of all Americans that they will land again-and land hard.

I should deem a man-of-war incomplete without a body of Marines...imbued with that esprit that has so long characterized the "Old Corps."

Our gratitude to the American people is immense and we should never be embarrassed to express it.

They say "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." In the Marine Corps, you can make that horse wish to hell he had.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

The enemy are only 50 yards from us. We are heavily outnumbered. We are under devastating fire. I shall not withdraw an inch but will fight to our last man and our last round.

Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.

I want to go where the guns are!

...a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war.

Never run after a man or a bus, there's always another one in five minutes.

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?

Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit - It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.

The Marine Corps is proud of the fact that it is a force of combined arms, and it jealously guards the integrity of its air-ground team.

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.

I'll likely be married to the soldier mob for better and for worse to live and to die.

If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in.

The Guns, Thank God, The Guns.

The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.

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

Get there first with the most men.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.

A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.