300 Quotes on Military

• The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed in war.

  Author: Norman Schwarzkopf

• Impossible is just a word to be found in the dictionary of fools

  Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

• Military police is very timely for our army.

  Author: Vladimir Zhirinovsky

• The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.

  Author: Jose Zapatero

• It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• The current stage does not allow the entrance of everyone into a military conflict, however everyone must be ready for the day in which it might take place, as the Zionist enemy is planning to attack our people and to control our land once again.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• The Palestinian situation is different. We can have military cooperation with other factions in the Palestinian territories. But we cannot have this with Hizbullah in Lebanon.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• 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.

  Author: Isoroku Yamamoto

• The Almighty has fixed the distinction of the races; the Almighty has made the black man inferior, and sir, by no legislation, by no partisan success, by no revolution, by no military power, can you wipe out this distinction.

  Author: Fernando Wood

• Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.

  Author: Ed Wood

• Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said "There's no military solution to terrorism. If there were, Israel would be the safest place in the world. But there's no military solution."

  Author: Bradley Whitford

• Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else.

  Author: William Westmoreland

• The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

  Author: William Westmoreland

• Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

  Author: Rebecca West

• Able Danger was a top-secret military planning operation, established in '99 by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to identify cells of al-Qaida worldwide and to take out al Qaida terrorists. They identified five cells worldwide, one of them in Brooklyn.

  Author: Curt Weldon

• Every dollar that we send in State Department aid or humanitarian aid that saves us from having to get involved with very expensive military actions is a good investment. And frankly, helping Israel fight terrorism in the Middle East is much cheaper than us fighting it here on our shores.

  Author: Anthony Weiner

• The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought.

  Author: Henry Waxman

• Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

  Author: George Washington

• The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.

  Author: Mercy Warren

• Our embedded reporters during the war agreed to guidelines established by the military.

  Author: Jim Walton

• Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of being transformed into anything else. We did not foresee that or the magnitude of these phenomena.

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

• In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.

  Author: Gijs Vries

• Ronald Reagan's vision of smaller government, less taxes, and a strong national defense has led to a prosperous America. As president, he rebuilt our military and reinvigorated our confidence in ourselves.

  Author: David Vitter

• People don't understand rural America. Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural America, you know you can't just keep taking from the land. You've got to give something back.

  Author: Tom Vilsack

• We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn.

  Author: Charles Vest

• I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.

  Author: Jesse Ventura

• I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot.

  Author: Wietse Venema

• 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.

  Author: Eamon Valera

• The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.

  Author: Eamon Valera

• Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

  Author: Barbara Tuchman

• Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

  Author: Barbara Tuchman

• From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence.

  Author: Paul Tsongas

• Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US-Japan negotiations, the military and economic pressures would only force Japan into further crisis if time were allowed to pass in vain.

  Author: Hideki Tojo

• Even military ministers have no more than a certain amount of control. It is customary that they have the right and the power to participate, from a political and military point of view, in the planning of actual operations.

  Author: Hideki Tojo

• Were British protesters, armed with little more than a frisbee and a bag of plastic toy soldiers, really in danger of being shot by the US military in Gloucestershire?

  Author: Mark Thomas

• An overstretched military undermines homeland security and our ability to meet threats around the world.

  Author: Ellen Tauscher

• Getting our military back on stable footing won't happen overnight. We must start this process now, since future engagements are likely and allies are scarce.

  Author: Ellen Tauscher

• I did not go to military school. I had an option either a military school or a private school. I don't know how to get that out of the information that's out there.

  Author: Channing Tatum

• War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

  Author: Charles Talleyrand

• A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.

  Author: Jalal Talabani

• Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.

  Author: Jalal Talabani

• My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot about and was fond of the Army.

  Author: Stuart Symington

• There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.

  Author: Gloria Swanson

• Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths.

  Author: John Stockwell

• Enemies are necessary for the wheels of the U.S. military machine to turn.

  Author: John Stockwell

• I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex.

  Author: Bruce Sterling

• If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what's supposed to come next.

  Author: Bruce Sterling

• If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.

  Author: Bruce Sterling

• All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death.

  Author: Edwin Stanton

• Democrats and Republicans alike support our military personnel.

  Author: John Spratt

• With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate that grew worse throughout the year, waged in part by soldiers of the disbanded army and in part by criminals who were released from prison.

  Author: John Spratt

• We are not utilizing the Iraqi oil for U.S. purposes. We are not asking that the Iraqi oil be used to pay our military expenses. We are asking only that the Iraqi oil be used to rebuild Iraq - that is, to rebuild Iraq for the Iraqi people.

  Author: Arlen Specter

• Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties.

  Author: George Soros

• Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians.

  Author: Theodore Sorensen

• We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.

  Author: Theodore Sorensen

• I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I've always been a gadget man.

  Author: Stephen Sondheim

• Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

  Author: Tony Snow

• The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.

  Author: L. Smith

• It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty.

  Author: Ike Skelton

• During the 2000 election, the current administration told our military, help is on the way. That is clearly not the case. The administration has failed to request the funds needed for the defense of this Nation. We must give the Army what it needs.

  Author: Ike Skelton

• Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.

  Author: Gary Sinise

• We're quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers.

  Author: Rob Simmons

• Our military commanders have said over and over again that a timetable for withdrawal sends the wrong message to our troops, but more importantly to our enemy.

  Author: Bill Shuster

• Many of the vicious criminals held there have been caught on the battlefield fighting against American troops and shutting down Guantanamo Bay would just require the military to move them elsewhere.

  Author: Bill Shuster

• Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service.

  Author: Chen Shui-bian

• We ask them to remove the missiles deployed against Taiwan, give up their military threat, and instead let us together open the door to cross-Strait peaceful and stable dialogue and negotiations.

  Author: Chen Shui-bian

• I am proud that the Republican Party stands for strong support for the military, and I am sure we will consistently support our men and women serving in dangerous places around the world and their families.

  Author: John Shimkus

• I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

  Author: William Sherman

• There are a lot of things that have to be considered in National. The military aspect of it is only one of them. I'm confident that President Bush will have all of those things laid out for him before he makes the decision.

  Author: Hugh Shelton

• I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  Author: Martin Sheen

• This Administration has led us into an area without vision. Bush has no clear understanding of what is being asked of the citizens, and the military is under his direction.

  Author: Martin Sheen

• No, no, I never despair, because George Bush is not running the universe. He may be running the United States, he may be running the military, he may be running even the world, but he is not running the universe, he is not running the human heart.

  Author: Martin Sheen

• We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

  Author: Neil Sheehan

• World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.

  Author: Neil Sheehan

• Indeed, one of the most successful and influential religious organizations in history, the Society of Jesus, was consciously modeled along military lines by its founder, Ignatius Loyola.

  Author: Robert Shea

• Military organization, like religious organization, can be seen as a paradigm of organization in general.

  Author: Robert Shea

• Yes, there is a story about Agent Orange, and we knew that it harmed our troops and we knew how long it was to get the medical community to accept that, the military to accept it, the VA to accept it.

  Author: Christopher Shays

• We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.

  Author: Moshe Sharett

• All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happens to them, their families will be well taken care of. That's the bond we have with our military men and women and their families.

  Author: Jeff Sessions

• He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.

  Author: Norman Schwarzkopf

• The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island, that hopefully will end with a cease-fire.

  Author: Jack Schwartz

• When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it.

  Author: Jack Schwartz

• Israel is now sustaining a war for its own existence. A nation defending its citizens against terrorist bombings and a military and diplomatic onslaught by an array of Arab foes is practicing survival, not genocide.

  Author: Jack Schwartz

• The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses - some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures. Were they all perpetuating their own lives in a myth?

  Author: Dwight Schultz

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

  Author: Phyllis Schlafly

• At the end of our NASA careers, no one had a place for us in the military.

  Author: Wally Schirra

• The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force.

  Author: Otto Schily

• Nevertheless, I do know that we are part of a danger zone, we have military operations in Afghanistan and we're training the Iraqi police force. The terrorists also have us in their sights.

  Author: Otto Schily

• We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers.

  Author: Otto Schily

• But if you're going to go out on a military unit, you've got to allow yourself to be under the control of the commander because you really could put the troops in danger.

  Author: Bob Schieffer

• Bin Laden is remarkably eager for Americans to know why he doesn't like us, what he intends to do about it and then following up and doing something about it in terms of military actions.

  Author: Michael Scheuer

• Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.

  Author: Bob Schaffer

• This was a report from a single source. It was an established and reliable line of reporting. It was quoted from a senior Iraqi military officer in a position to know this information.

  Author: John Scarlett

• The Iraqi military are able to deploy these weapons within 45 minutes of a decision to do so.

  Author: John Scarlett

• I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.

  Author: Siegfried Sassoon

• The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

  Author: Jose Saramago

• Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?

  Author: Jose Saramago

• I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?

  Author: Jose Saramago

• Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

  Author: George Santayana

• Once a major military confrontation occurs, North Korea will definitely be annihilated.

  Author: Kim Sam

• If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

  Author: Lord Salisbury

• I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border.

  Author: Harrison Salisbury

• White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.

  Author: Jeffrey Sachs

• The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy.

  Author: Harold Russell

• The president's very right about one thing: When you have a disaster of that scale, whether it be natural or a terrorist attack, there's only one part of our entire government, state or local, that is equipped to handle it, and that's the U.S. military.

  Author: Warren Rudman

• The two things that could have been better is number one, to get major military force into the community almost immediately to make sure that there was law and order. Number two, we had enough helicopters to airlift food into the centers of population and those places.

  Author: Warren Rudman

• The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions.

  Author: Joseph Rotblat

• Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using conventional weapons.

  Author: Joseph Rotblat

• We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

  Author: Mitt Romney

• Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong military, a strong economy and strong families.

  Author: Mitt Romney

• But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

  Author: Erwin Rommel

• In our post-9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy.

  Author: Mike Rogers

• For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy.

  Author: Lord Robertson

• Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.

  Author: Bob Riley

• The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.

  Author: Bob Riley

• We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war.

  Author: Publius Renatus

• The later it gets the more disturbed the city becomes. I go with Albert through the streets. Men are standing in groups at every corner. Rumours are flying. It is said that the military have already fired on a procession of demonstrating workers.

  Author: Erich Remarque

• We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching.

  Author: Ralph Regula

• Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.

  Author: Jack Reed

• We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

  Author: Ronald Reagan

• The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

  Author: Herbert Read

• Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight.

  Author: Charles Rangel

• My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club.

  Author: Harold Ramis

• Well, you have a defence attache here, that's a step forward. Your Defence Minister has been here, our defence people have exchanges with you. So friendly relations at the military level are already in existence.

  Author: Sellapan Ramanathan

• I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.

  Author: Akbar Rafsanjani

• Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected.

  Author: Ludwig Quidde

• When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all.

  Author: Ludwig Quidde

• So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible.

  Author: Ludwig Quidde

• We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it.

  Author: Jerry Pournelle

• The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.

  Author: James Polk

• Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they're not, I don't know how many are doing it, I know it is systematic throughout the United States military I think that's been revealed.

  Author: John Pilger

• Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

  Author: Richard Perle

• We've built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It's only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort.

  Author: John Perkins

• When you combine the men and women deployed from our military installations with activated reservists and members of the National Guard, Georgia is contributing more personnel to the theatre than any other State in our Union.

  Author: Sonny Perdue

• Normal military trade is undoubtedly part of the normal State-to-State relations.

  Author: Li Peng

• The result is that you are now experiencing what we experienced in the war in Algeria: The Israeli government says that it is a victim of terrorist activity, but this activity is less visible than the military strikes.

  Author: Jean-Marie Pen

• No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary.

  Author: Lester Pearson

• A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.

  Author: George Patton

• Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.

  Author: James Patterson

• A military road led from this point to Fort Leavenworth, and for many miles the farms and cabins of the Delawares were scattered at short intervals on either hand.

  Author: Francis Parkman

• The highly skilled workers at Lima have enabled the plant to grow far beyond its original mission, now providing a wide variety of cutting-edge military vehicles and equipment to the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.

  Author: Michael Oxley

• As a former veteran, I understand the needs of veterans, and have been clear - we will work together, stand together with the Administration, but we will also question their policies when they shortchange veterans and military retirees.

  Author: Solomon Ortiz

• It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour.

  Author: Solomon Ortiz

• To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served.

  Author: Solomon Ortiz

• To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision.

  Author: Leo Ornstein

• The military's own report says that one-third of deaths and casualties could have been avoided if proper body armor and vehicle armor had been provided from the start of the war.

  Author: John Olver

• In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces and thereby play a more active role in the keeping and restoration of peace in various parts of the world.

  Author: Kenzaburo Oe

• Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.

  Author: William Odom

• To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.

  Author: William Odom

• I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it.

  Author: William Odom

• Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.

  Author: Barack Obama

• Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

  Author: Barack Obama

• We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

  Author: Barack Obama

• Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.

  Author: Oliver North

• Four or five frigates will do the business without any military force.

  Author: Lord North

• Fourth, we might have declared an embargo against the shipping from American ports of any merchandise to either one of these governments that persisted in maintaining its military zone.

  Author: George Norris

• As to the war, while it is always thought rash to have any strong military convictions, I have always believed that if they would go straight to Sebastopol early in the season they would take it with little difficulty.

  Author: Francis Newman

• We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing that was to be able to bolster the quality, improve the quality of the El Salvadoran fighting forces.

  Author: John Negroponte

• War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.

  Author: Alva Myrdal

• And so, I was not a military test pilot, but as soon as NASA expressed an interest in flying scientists and people who were not military test pilots, that was an epiphany that just came like a stroke of lightning.

  Author: Story Musgrave

• We must continue to ensure law enforcement has the necessary tools to combat terrorism here at home. We must also work with our allies and provide our military with the weapons and protective gear they need to defeat terrorism abroad.

  Author: Timothy Murphy

• My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.

  Author: Lord Mountbatten

• All of us who are convinced that our military needs all the support the government and public will provide are pleased that he will have his chance to do just that.

  Author: Alex Morrison

• I think there has to be greater heed paid by the Security Council members to military advice.

  Author: Alex Morrison

• However, I think, first of all, that what's happening in Sierra Leone is going to have the great influence on those governments who will be asked to provide forces to the Congo. Second, of course, the Security Council has no professional military advice organized in any way.

  Author: Alex Morrison

• I do believe that the United Nations needs to have more exacting, more enhanced professional standards for the military peacekeepers that are deployed.

  Author: Alex Morrison

• The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.

  Author: Alex Morrison

• No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.

  Author: Dick Morris

• Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side of history was insignificant or a mere reflection of economic forces.

  Author: Samuel Morison

• So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.

  Author: Elizabeth Moon

• I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there.

  Author: George Mitchell

• We have no quarrel with America. We all know NATO is the strongest military machine in the world. We simply want them to stop being so busy with our country and worry about their own problems.

  Author: Slobodan Milosevic

• The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable.

  Author: Barbara Mikulski

• To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.

  Author: Myriam Miedzian

• I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

  Author: Olivier Messiaen

• I considered myself engaged in a war from Day One. And my objective was to force the federal government - the Kennedy administration at that time - into a position where they would have to use the United States military force to enforce my rights as a citizen.

  Author: James Meredith

• We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

  Author: Golda Meir

• When an aggressor force continually launches attacks from a particular base of operations, it is sound military strategy to take the flight to the enemy.

  Author: Timothy McVeigh

• Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less personal.

  Author: John McHugh

• One only has to look at the performance of the economy to understand how it shapes the perspective of America's youth about military service.

  Author: John McHugh

• Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.

  Author: John McHugh

• The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.

  Author: Martin McGuinness

• The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

  Author: Aaron McGruder

• As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.

  Author: George McClellan

• In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

  Author: Mary McCarthy

• And the program was developed in large part by behavioral scientists who were working with the military, who do everything they possibly can to measure a soldier's stress levels to see how they're doing physically and emotionally, as they go through this program.

  Author: Jane Mayer

• I mean, the people who run Guantanamo, the military, pretty much dismiss complaints by the detainees because they say that they're all created as part of a political process to sort of fake complaints and get public support.

  Author: Jane Mayer

• The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about.

  Author: Jane Mayer

• Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

  Author: Allan Massie

• Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

  Author: Groucho Marx

• Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

  Author: Groucho Marx

• Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA.

  Author: Ed Markey

• Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.

  Author: Kamisese Mara

• What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work.

  Author: Peter MacKay

• War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

  Author: Niccolo Machiavelli

• Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

  Author: Douglas MacArthur

• And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty.

  Author: Douglas MacArthur

• Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine.

  Author: Nick Lowe

• The highly motivated young people who comprise the backbone of our military force truly are taking their place as one of America's greatest generations.

  Author: Trent Lott

• I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it.

  Author: Jay London

• On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.

  Author: Dan Lipinski

• It is considered a major sin to break a contract, if you agreed, especially with military situations.

  Author: John Lindh

• It is a major sin to break a contract, especially in military situations.

  Author: John Lindh

• While the CDC is focusing on how our enemies could attack us, our military is focused on who may attack us.

  Author: John Linder

• I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military.

  Author: Robert Lifton

• The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat.

  Author: Robert Lifton

• Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.

  Author: Karl Liebknecht

• In this era of uncertainty and conflict, the United States - blessed with the world's strongest military, most ingenious economy, and most tolerant society - remains a model and leader to the world.

  Author: Joe Lieberman

• Some in my party threaten to send a message that they don't know a just war when they see it, and more broadly that they're not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom.

  Author: Joe Lieberman

• We have the largest economy and the strongest military in the world. Our core values of freedom and opportunity are ascendant around the globe.

  Author: Joe Lieberman

• We need to ensure our men and women in uniform are equipped with the very best money can buy. We also have to make sure critical military technologies are developed in America and that the U.S. defense manufacturing base remains healthy and strong.

  Author: Joe Lieberman

• Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.

  Author: Carl Levin

• I've been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldn't pay for the dental work he needed.

  Author: Matthew Lesko

• I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.

  Author: Donna Leon

• That's the reason some schools of thinking don't rule out a destruction of the Chinese military potential before the situation grows worse than it is today. It's bad enough now.

  Author: Curtis Lemay

• I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.

  Author: Barbara Lee

• Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

  Author: Richard Leakey

• Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support, and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined.

  Author: Tom Lantos

• Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military.

  Author: Tom Lantos

• This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father's visits to the region. He wound up being impressed by the royal and military regimes and envied them for staying decades in their positions and embezzling the nation's money with no supervision.

  Author: Osama Laden

• When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.

  Author: Lactantius

• One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help - that they will never be abandoned.

  Author: Jon Kyl

• During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions.

  Author: Nguyen Ky

• We all know that in war the political and military factors have to complement each other.

  Author: Nguyen Ky

• If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

  Author: Lajos Kossuth

• I thought what the military was doing was unconstitutional.

  Author: Fred Korematsu

• This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.

  Author: Lawrence Korb

• During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.

  Author: Walter Kohn

• I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest.

  Author: Jeane Kirkpatrick

• The decision to go to war is the most important decision that I can make as a representative in Congress. As a veteran, I see any potential military action first through the eyes of the young men and women who volunteered to wear the uniform and would carry out such a mission.

  Author: Mark Kirk

• You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime.

  Author: William Kirby

• Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.

  Author: Jack Kingston

• A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

  Author: Martin King, Jr.

• If the military might of Germany and Japan are ultimately to be crushed, the United Nations, one and all, must definitely and urgently strive toward a total war effort.

  Author: William King

• George Bush, Dick Cheney, every one of the speakers praised John Kerry's war record. No one said he was unfit. They said he has terrible judgment, and that's his record as a senator. Nobody questioned his military record.

  Author: Peter King

• We can all be proud of our men and women in the military who are following their orders, carrying out their missions and sacrificing so much to give the Iraqi people a chance for a more peaceful and prosperous future.

  Author: Ron Kind

• The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.

  Author: Val Kilmer

• It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family.

  Author: Alan Keyes

• I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.

  Author: John Kerry

• This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.

  Author: Mark Kennedy

• I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

  Author: John Kennedy

• A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.

  Author: John Kennedy

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

  Author: John Kennedy

• I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.

  Author: Frank Kellogg

• I have drawn a very close bond to all the military people.

  Author: Toby Keith

• Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues.

  Author: John Keegan

• There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished.

  Author: Janis Karpinski

• The war was declared over - the end of major combat operations - in May 2003. Release procedures got under way immediately; reducing the population from 8,000 to just over 300, of course, requires fewer military police soldiers.

  Author: Janis Karpinski

• The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone.

  Author: Janis Karpinski

• That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility of conducting training, which they did. We were not equipped or set up with personnel to recruit new Iraqi guards.

  Author: Janis Karpinski

• Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under their control.

  Author: Janis Karpinski

• In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely; it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq.

  Author: Janis Karpinski

• I knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running, but we needed to evaluate how many criminal prison operations we could support.

  Author: Janis Karpinski

• Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs.

  Author: Herman Kahn

• I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.

  Author: Robert Kagan

• Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.

  Author: Akhmad Kadyrov

• There is some sign that North Korea is changing recently. There is ongoing successful negotiation to have a military talk to Pyongyang, which has been stopped for seven years.

  Author: Kim Jung

• On completion of my military service, I went back to the factory and to the trade union.

  Author: Leon Jouhaux

• If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.

  Author: Tommy Jones

• In the light of the actual fighting that is now in progress, we have reached the point where the military considerations clearly outweigh the fiscal considerations.

  Author: Louis Johnson

• Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.

  Author: Jimmy Johnson

• Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being trained for military combat. I thought that this had just gone too far.

  Author: Eddie Johnson

• The American Army has supplied, assigned a very capable man to me, to help me, bring me to military justice. I don't think I need no civilians. All I want to do is clear myself with the American Army.

  Author: Robert Jenkins

• When I got on the airplane in Indonesia coming to Japan, my intentions was to turn myself in to the military for the simple reason I would like to put my daughters with their mother, one thing. Another thing, I'd like to clear my conscience.

  Author: Robert Jenkins

• The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

  Author: Thomas Jefferson

• For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?

  Author: Fredric Jameson

• All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light.

  Author: Bruce Jackson

• The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.

  Author: Bruce Jackson

• I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.

  Author: Andrew Jackson

• People do still cheer for the President. And some of the military audiences are more likely to cheer than others. I have seen him speak lately in front of groups like Freedom House, where the applause was a long time coming.

  Author: Gwen Ifill

• No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors.

  Author: Douglas Hurd

• Nothing matures a military force quicker than actual military operations.

  Author: Duncan Hunter

• Our nation must manage significant national security challenges over the next several years. We are already facing a potential conflict with Iraq, new challenges on the Korean peninsula, and key decisions in the president's plans to transform the military.

  Author: Duncan Hunter

• The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona's military bases are to the defense of our country. We need to do everything we can to protect them.

  Author: Jane Hull

• Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.

  Author: Cordell Hull

• I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police.

  Author: John Howard

• After this urgent protest against entering into battle at Gettysburg according to instructions - which protest is the first and only one I ever made during my entire military career - I ordered my line to advance and make the assault.

  Author: John Hood

• Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign.

  Author: Robyn Hitchcock

• They came out over the highway and they stopped and that's when Barney got out, with the binoculars to try and identify the craft. I mean, he'd been in the military in World War Two, he's puzzled.

  Author: Betty Hill

• Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti.

  Author: Thor Heyerdahl

• It doesn't matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can't speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community.

  Author: Seymour Hersh

• Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.

  Author: Keith Henson

• I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.

  Author: Joseph Heller

• North Carolina, particularly the 8th District, has long played a key role in our Nation's military forces.

  Author: Robin Hayes

• I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.

  Author: Vaclav Havel

• Leaving Iraq without military assistance during its transition, and before it is stable enough to ensure its own citizens' security, would pose a tremendous risk. We must complete our mission.

  Author: Doc Hastings

• Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.

  Author: Albert Hart

• The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

  Author: William Harrison

• This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.

  Author: W. Harriman

• The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.

  Author: Elizabeth Hardwick

• U.S. officials and outside experts agree that China is undertaking a comprehensive modernization of its military. The Chinese military has gotten smaller but smarter.

  Author: Lee Hamilton

• The reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.

  Author: Franz Halder

• We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.

  Author: David Hackworth

• In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while.

  Author: George Grosz

• I went to Ft Bragg and learned that Delta was indeed gearing up for the rescue. Still I was concerned the Reagan staff would not be willing to take the risk of sending an official military force into Laos.

  Author: Bo Gritz

• Surely no issue unites us more than our appreciation for our military personnel who are bringing aid to devastated countries, defending us against terrorism, and fighting to make a free election possible in Iraq.

  Author: Christine Gregoire

• The veterans of our military services have put their lives on the line to protect the freedoms that we enjoy. They have dedicated their lives to their country and deserve to be recognized for their commitment.

  Author: Judd Gregg

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