Ex Military Quotes

Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again.

Victory breeds hatred; the defeated live in pain. The peaceful live happily, giving up victory and defeat.

I am not fond of speaking about politics because I don't have in my possession an army of 200,000 soldiers.

The best generals are those who have served in the artillery.

Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.

What we have to fight for...is the freedom and independence of the fatherland, so that our people may be enabled to fulfill the mission assigned to it by the Creator.

So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it.

If the entire Union Army comes across here, I will kill them all!

The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.

Infantry must move forward to close with the enemy. It must shoot in order to move.... To halt under fire is folly. To halt under fire and not fire back is suicide. Officers must set the example

My business is to succeed, and I’m good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day.

The logistic requirements for a large, elaborate mission to Mars are no greater that those for a minor military operation extending over a limited theatre of war.

I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

Strategic air assault is wasted if it is dissipated piecemeal in sporadic attacks between which the enemy has an opportunity to readjust defenses or recuperate.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face NOTHING new under the sun.

Our military should spare no expense to ensure the safety of our troops, particularly as they confront a hostile insurgency and roadside bombs throughout Iraq.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

The mail service has been excellent out here, and in my opinion this is all that the Air Force has accomplished during the war.

I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.

Great liars are also great magicians.

In all their wars against the French they [the Americans] never showed such conduct, attention and perseverance as they do now.

Would you respect a God you could comprehend? And yet very often that’s what we want - a God who reflects our culture, our biases, our economic, political, and military systems.

The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

The military value of a partisan's work is not measured by the amount of property destroyed, or the number of men killed or captured, but by the number [of the enemy which] he keeps watching [him].

War: that mad game the world so loves to play.

Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth.

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

There are not enough chinamen in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment from going where ever they want to go.

Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency.

War is a terrible trade. But when the cause is just, the smell of gunpowder is sweet.

However formidable a military power you may be, you cannot impose upon a people anything against their will.

When a general complains of the morale of his troops, the time has come to look at his own.

My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.

Money is my military, each dollar a soldier. I never send my money into battle unprepared and undefended. I send it to conquer and take currency prisoner and bring it back to me.

A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow.

The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness.

Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.

...The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism.

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than 10 military divisions.

In war, numbers alone confer no advantage. Do not advance relying on sheer military power.

Whatever goal, man has reached is due to his originality plus his brutality

Cities can be rebuilt, industries can be rebuilt, what really matters are strategy forces, military forces and the cadres leaders, political, military and economic.

Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.