Military Quotations And Sayings

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“The military do so love shiny new technology, there’s always so many ways to abuse it.”
– Peter F. Hamilton

“If you only would!” He added rather diffidently: “If you would not mind remembering that I am a military court of inquiry. It makes it easier for me to report to the general if you say things dully and in the order that they happened.”
– Ford Madox Ford

“Military men are the scourges of the world.”
– Guy de Maupassant

“The man is a monster. The worst I have ever seen, in fact, since I last looked in the mirror. The truth? I am rotting too. I am buried alive, and already rotting. If I was not such a coward I would kill myself, but I am, and so I must content myself with killing others in the hope that one day, if I can only wade deep enough in blood, I will come out clean.”
– Joe Abercrombie

“Sir, what can be said of these things? Is it the arm of the flesh that hath done these things? Is it the wisdom and counsel, or strength of man? It is the Lord only. God will curse that man and his house that dares to think otherwise. Sir, you see the work is done by a Divine leading. God gets into the hearts of men, and persuades them to come under you.”
– Oliver Cromwell

“No man can be a Christian and a soldier at the same time, for the two ideas are wholly incompatible.”
– W.E. Woodward

“Sturm, Swung, Wucht”
– Erwin Rommel

“An army is a miniature of the society which produces it.”
– C. L. R. James

“For God and country—Geronimo, Geronimo, Geronimo. Geronimo E.K.I.A”
– Devgru Operator

“Their notion of training was to march the men up and down in parades and reviews: these were nice to look at and gave them the impression of military discipline and precision, but as a preparation for a modern war they had no value whatsoever.”
– Orlando Figes

“When you get right down to it, militaries are essentially legalized mafias.”
– Michel Templet

“I absolutely hate the way the United States glorifies its military and its wars. Real heroes fight for peace.”
– Michel Templet

“Troops are everywhere in their modern, digital camouflage, designed to blend in anywhere at any time. Yet at night we wear bright yellow reflective belts.”
– Glenn Dean

“In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor.” James Franck, The Manhattan Project neatly summarize the atomic bomb.”
– James Franck

“Most people today couldn’t tell a bombardier from a brigadier” – said during a lecture in aid of the Army Benevolent Fund in 2009″
– Richard Holmes

“There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time.”
– General George Patton

“It is fatal to enter a war without the will to win it.”
– General Douglas MacArthur

“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.”
– President John F. Kennedy

“Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.”
– Aristotle

“It is God’s job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.”
– General Norman Schwarzkopf

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
– President Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.”
– General George Marshall

“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”
– President Thomas Jefferson

“There are some who’ve forgotten why we have a military. It’s not to promote war, it’s to be prepared for peace.”
– President Ronald Reagan

“Now therefore, be it Resolved by the Fiftieth Annual Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, That we hereby declare that we are unalterably opposed to any program which would entail the surrender of any part of the sovereignty of the United States of America in favor of a world government.”
– Veterans of Foreign Wars

“The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.”
– President George Washington

“The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.”
– General Norman Schwarzkopf

“To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.”
– General George Washington

“The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer.”
– Air Force Motto

“I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.”
– General Douglas MacArthur

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