Military Quotations And Sayings

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“It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.”
– President George Washington

“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.”
– Colin Powell

“The best morale exists when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear it it’s usually lousy.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

“In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it.”
– Erwin Rommel

“Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, and brains save both. ”
– Erwin Rommel

“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. 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. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. ”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower

“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. ”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower

“We can’t all be heroes. Some of us have to stand on the curb and clap as they go by.”
– Will Rogers

“If anyone attempts to haul down the Flag, shoot him on the spot.”
– John Adams Dix

“When in doubt — Attack. If you don’t succeed — attack again.”
– LTC Ralph Huber

” I only want you to work half days — Just tell me which twelve hour shift you want.”
– Craig Scrivner

“If it doesn’t grow — pick it up. If it doesn’t move — Paint it!”
– SGM Conrad Watson

“A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow.”
– Gen George S. Patton

“You don’t know how much Blood I have shed for this country… theirs not mine…”
– George Fasulo

“You make a living by what you get, you make a life by what you give”
– Winston Churchill

“Don’t coddle them… break them down like a shot gun they’ll shoot straighter.”
– SGM Conrad Watson

“Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.”
– David H. Hackworth

“Confusion in battle is what pain is in childbirth – the natural order of things.”
– General Maurice Tugwell

“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower

“No person what ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.”
– Calvin Coolidge

“I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn’t plan your mission properly.”
– David H. Hackworth

“From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.”
– Thomas Jefferson

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