Combat Quotes - Page 3

• 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.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Military, Air, Order

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• When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue.

  Prince Andrew

  War, Two, Issues

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.

  Hillary Clinton

  Education, Religious, Children

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• I'm going to fight my way out, I'm going to take all my equipment and all my wounded and as many dead as I can. If we can't get out this way, this Division will never fight as a unit again.

  Oliver P. Smith

  Military, Marine, Army

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• My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn't load a revolver.

  Gene Wolfe

  Writing, Army, Thinking

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• But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these brave pilots and medics.

  Tim Holden

  Struggle, America, Brave

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• I've done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing - and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and things like that, to stay catlike!

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Running, Yoga, Rocks

  "Ennifer Lawrence On 'Hunger Games,' 'Transformers' Announces World Premiere In Today's Dailies" by Josh Wigler, www.mtv.com. May 23, 2011.

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• A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.

  Allen West

  Education, Army, Men

  "Fiery Speech Thrusts Congressional Candidate Into National Spotlight". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. December 15, 2009.

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• When a thought appears such as "Do the dishes" and you don't do them, notice how an internal war breaks out... The stress and weariness you feel are really mental combat fatigue.

  Byron Katie

  War, Stress, Break Out

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• The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Fighting, Vanity, Quality

  Eddie Rickenbacker (2012). “Fighting the Flying Circus”, p.48, Tales End Press

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• Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat.

  Rick Perry

  Children, Cutting, Fixing

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• I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.

  Tracy Kidder

  Vietnam, Novel

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

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Military, Cutting, Goal

  "Women Don't Belong In Ground Combat". eagleforum.org. June 1, 2005.

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• 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.

  Eddie Bernice Johnson

  Children, Military, Kids

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• You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

  Jeannette Rankin

  Peace, Military, War

  Quoted in Hannah Josephson, Jeannette Rankin: First Lady in Congress (1974)

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• Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Country, Israel, Ideas

  "Women Don't Belong In Ground Combat". eagleforum.org. June 01, 2005.

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• They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...

  John Sedgwick

  Elephants, Civil War, Dodging Bullets

  Quoted in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (1887 - 1888). This line is popularly said to have been Sedgwick's last words and to have been cut off in the middle of "distance." In fact, this was Sedgwick's second-to-last sentence and was completed before the bullet hit.

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• The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us.

  Tom Clancy

  Country, Jobs, Military

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• The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

  David Friedman

  Funny, Peace, Children

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• I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat.

  George H. W. Bush

  Thinking, President

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• All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.

  George S. Patton

  Military, Fighting, Men

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• Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

  George Santayana

  Military, War, Philosophical

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• Every three weeks, we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008...That’s why, over the past six years, we’ve done more than ever before to combat climate change, from the way we produce energy, to the way we use it.

  Barack Obama

  Past, Years, Energy

  Sixth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2015

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• I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

  Margaret Mead

  Funny, Hilarious, Peace

  "Quote Unquote". Book by Lloyd Cory, 1977.

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• If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.

  Gijs de Vries

  Information, Share, Indispensable

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