Military Quotations And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Is killing a known terrorist wrong? I ask this, did the terrorist allow any of his victims quarter? No, then allow him no quarter, and hoist the black flag.”
– T.R. Wallace

“You see, there is a major downfall to living in a tourist town. You guessed it, the constant turnover of new people. You cannot really connect with anyone because no one is ever here for more than two weeks every year, if they comeback at all. The intruders never thought about what happens once they leave. ~ Stella”
– Michele Richard

“I suddenly felt like the Grinch feels when he discovers what Christmas is all about. For the first time in a long time, I felt like I had a purpose being in the Navy. It wasn’t about money and rank or prestige. It was about raising the flag. We do what we do because no one else can or will do it. We fight so others can sleep at night. And I had forgotten that.”
– Timothy Ciciora

“America’s finest – our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.”
– Sarah Palin

“Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they’ve been given.”
– Orson Scott Card

“The Japanese fought to win – it was a savage, brutal, inhumane, exhausting and dirty business. Our commanders knew that if we were to win and survive, we must be trained realistically for it whether we liked it or not. In the post-war years, the U.S. Marine Corps came in for a great deal of undeserved criticism in my opinion, from well-meaning persons who did not comprehend the magnitude of stress and horror that combat can be. The technology that developed the rifle barrel, the machine gun and high explosive shells has turned war into prolonged, subhuman slaughter. Men must be trained realistically if they are to survive it without breaking, mentally and physically.”
– Eugene B. Sledge

“I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: ‘I served in the United States Navy.”
– John F. Kennedy

“In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.”
– Erwin Rommel

“Have you ever stopped to ponder the amount of blood spilt, the volume of tears shed, the degree of pain and anguish endured, the number of noble men and women lost in battle so that we as individuals might have a say in governing our country? Honor the lives sacrificed for your freedoms. Vote.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich

“He who whets his steel, whets his courage”
– Steven Pressfield

“O it’s Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy ‘ow’s your soul/But it’s thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.”
– Rudyard Kipling

“…Obama said, ‘I welcome debate among my team, but I won’t tolerate division.”
– Bob Woodward

“Aim towards enemy.” – instructions on U.S. rocket launcher”
– U.S. instructional manuel

“To have the opportunity to know your parents is to have the opportunity to truly know yourself.”
– Amy Denise

“War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.”
– Sebastian Junger

“There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted – but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.”
– Robert A. Heinlein

“Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy.”
– George F. Kennan

“America without her Soldiers would be like God without His angels.”
– Claudia Pemberton

“Soon I was weeping—for the reservists who put their entire lives on hold when called to duty, for the military mothers who had to keep their families together all alone, for the parents, spouses, sons, and daughters who were beset with worry, for Mike, and for the soldiers who would never come home. I only meant to buy a shower curtain, and now, quite unexpectedly, right when I least wanted it, months of pent-up loneliness, fear, and frustration were pouring out in an endless churn of hot, silent tears.”
– Lily Burana

“His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky.”
– David Morrell

“Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.”
– Barbara W. Tuchman

“We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the certainty of God… Among the tribes our creed could be only like the desert grass – a beautiful swift seeming of spring; which, after a day’s heat, fell dusty.”
– T.E. Lawrence

“Only a foolish woman would allow her man to earn his living as a moving target.”
– David H. Hackworth

“In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played down to the level of the weakest man on parade…. The deeper the discipline, the lower was the individual excellence; also the more sure the performance. – T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom”
– T.E. Lawrence

“War is too important to be left to the generals”
– Georges Clemenceau

“Mine was still the stronger side. I was beloved by the soldiery, who generally care very little what god they serve so long as they are caressed by their king. (“The Story of Prince Alasi and the Princess Firouzkah”)”
– WilliamBeckford

“The Army’s new pitch was simple. Good pay, good benefits, a manageable amount of adventure… but don’t worry, we’re not looking to pick fights these days. For a country that had paid so dear a price for its recent military buccaneering, the message was comforting. We still had the largest and most technologically advanced standing army in the world, the most nuclear weapons, the best and most powerful conventional weapons systems, the biggest navy. At the same time, to the average recruit the promise wasn’t some imminent and dangerous combat deployment; it was 288 bucks a month (every month), training, travel, and experience. Selling the post-Vietnam military as a career choice meant selling the idea of peacetime service. It meant selling the idea of peacetime. Barf.”
– Rachel Maddow

“I wanted that future officer to weigh decisions with a supple mind and to be comfortable with nuance and uncertainty. ”
– Craig M. Mullaney

“Excited. In a good way. I’ve been training my whole life for this.”
– Mark Bowden

“Negotiations with Iran, especially, will not be easy under any circumstances, but I suspect that they might be somewhat less difficult if the nuclear-weapon states could show that their requests are part of a broader effort to lead the world, including themselves, toward nuclear disarmament. Preventing further proliferation is essential, but it is not a recipe for success to preach to the rest of the world to stay away from the very weapons that nuclear states claim are indispensable to their own security.”
– Hans Blix

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