Ex Military Quotes
The nature of encounter operations required of the commanders limitless initiative and constant readiness to take the responsibility for military actions.
Don't say it's impossible! Turn your command over to the next officer. If he can't do it, I'll find someone who can, even if I have to take him from the ranks!
The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.
To conquer the command in the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat.
We will not capitulate - no, never! We may be destroyed, but if we are, we shall drag a world with us - a world in flames.
You can't destroy the polish national-consciousness or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves
In many situations that seemed desperate, the artillery has been a most vital factor.
One minute can decide the outcome of the battle, one hour - the outcome of the campaign, and one day - the fate of the country.
Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men
The technical genius which could find answers was not cooped up in military or civilian bureaucracy, but was to be found in universities and in the people at large.
I believe we must be strong militarily, but beyond a certain point military strength can become a national weakness.
We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.
If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.
Our present control of the sea is so absolute that it is sometimes taken for granted.
War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security.
Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.
Strike an enemy once and for all. Let him cease to exist as a tribe or he will live to fly in your throat again.
When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.
Information on UFOs, including sighting reports, has been and is still being officially withheld.
In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.
The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
States care about relative wealth, because economic might is the foundation of military might.
A compliance with the minutiae of military courtesy is a mark of well-disciplined troops.