More Military Quotes And Sayings

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“No combat ready unit has ever passed inspection.”
– Joe Gay

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

“Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.”
– John G. Riefenbaker

“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].”
– John Singleton Mosby

“Ah, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There’s only one way to shut them up – cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go and get me one!”
– Joseph Stalin

“War is the continuation of policy(politics) by other means.”
– Karl von Clausewitz

“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.” 
– Leonora Carrington

“What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass.”
– Lord Melbourne

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

“There is no beating these troops in spite of their generals. I always thought them bad soldiers, now I am sure of it. I turned their right, pierced their centre, broke them everywhere; the day was mine, and yet they did not know it and would not run.”
– Marshal Soult

“Everyone wants peace – and they will fight the most terrible war to get it.”
– Miles Kington

“One might as well try to charge through a wall.”
– Napoleon

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

“Always forgive your enemies–nothing annoys them so much.”
– Oscar Wilde 

“War is a competition of incompetence – the least incompetent usually win.”
– Pakistani General Tiger

“Sometimes I think war is God‘s way of teaching us geography.”
– Paul Rodriguez

“Only the dead will know the end of the war.”
– Plato

“The characteristic of a genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not Honor more.” 
– Richard Lovelace

“Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a difference in the world, but the Marines don’t have that problem”
– Ronald Reagan

“The ‘eathen in ‘is blindness must end where ‘e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!”
– Rudyard Kipling

“Mines are equal opportunity weapons.”
– Saddam Hussein

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

“Don’t tell me why…just show me the bones.”
– SGM Conrad Watson

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

“In any problem where an opposing force exists and cannot be regulated, one must foresee and provide for alternative courses. adaptability is the law which governs survival in war as in life … To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy’s power to frustrate it; the best chance of overcoming such obstruction is to have a plan that can be easily varied to fit the circumstances met.”
– Sir Basil H. Liddell-Hart

“We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.”
– Sir Robert Baden-Powell 

“Take short views, hope for the best and trust in God.”
– Sir Sydney Smith

“Don’t never volunteer for nothing.”
– Soldier’s Mother

“Fortune favors the brave.”
– Terence

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