Ex Military Quotes

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

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

It is God's job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

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

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!

For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.

If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or is a Gurkha.

Always make your opponent think you know more than you really know.

Without cavalry, battles are without result.

You shouldn't underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him.

All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should remember it.

The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.

If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly.

The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible.

Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.

We're like America's little pit bull. They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they let it out to attack somebody.

Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.

It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.

To have command of the air means to be able to cut an enemy's army and navy off from their bases of operation and nullify their chances of winning the war.

Be the hunter, not the hunted: Never allow your unit to be caught with its guard down.

Fascist education is moral, physical, social, and military: it aims to create a complete and harmoniously developed human, a fascist one according to our views.

There is at least one thing worse than fighting with allies - And that is to fight without them

Through the skill and devotion to duty of their armed forces of all branches in the Midway area our citizens can now rejoice that a momentous victory is in the making.

The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.

History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.

The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.

Never forget that the most sacred right on this earth is mans right to have the earth to till with his own hands, the most sacred sacrifice the blood that a man sheds for this earth.

Only one military organization can hold and gain ground in war-a ground army supported by tactical aviation with supply lines guarded by the navy.

The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that, as in ju-jitsu, his own effort is turned into the lever of his overthrow.

There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.

I make war on the living, not the dead.

America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.

Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.

I would rather he had given me one more division

But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity.

The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over today and the army tomorrow.

I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world.

The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.

We are dealing with veterans, not procedures; with their problems, not ours.

In Europe, Socialism is just another political party. It just means that government takes over certain things like hospitals, prisons, military and schools that should not be run for profit.

So a military force has no constant formation, water has no constant shape: the ability to gain victory by changing and adapting according to the opponent is called genius.

The bullet is a mad thing; only the bayonet knows what it is about.

A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.

If you entrench yourself behind strong fortifications, you compel the enemy seek a solution elsewhere.

Perhaps the happiest moment of my life was then, when I saw that our line didn't break and that the enemy's did.

Many in the American military have learned the fundamental dilemma of modern warfare: More money and better weapons don't mean that you win.

It is true that we are under occupation, but we are not the weaker party. We are the military force which Israel failed to defeat.

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.