Military Uniform Quotes

• When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Uniforms, Accepting

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• War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Peace, War, Fighting

  "Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty" by Emma Goldman, chapter five of Anarchism and Other Essays, 1911.

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• A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.

  George Washington

  Wisdom, Military, Independent

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1837). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.8

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• Do not degrade me in the military uniform I wear for it represents the love I have for my country, and the sacrifices myself and millions of other American soldiers make everyday to protect the freedom we enjoy by living in the United States of America.

  Larry David

  Love, Country, Freedom

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• With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.

  Zach Wamp

  Military, Responsibility, Thinking

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• Believe me that every man you see in a military uniform is not a hero.

  Duke of Wellington

  Military, Believe, Hero

  Arthur Wellesley (1st duke of Wellington.) (1838). “The dispatches of ... the duke of Wellington, compiled by lieut. colonel Gurwood. [With] Suppl. to vol. 1/3 [and] Index. [With] Index”, p.590

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• When I see someone in a military uniform I make it a point to approach them, shake their hand and say five words... 'thank you for your service.' 'Stars Earn Stripes' is a high energy, fun, action show, but at its heart it is all about those five words.

  Mark Burnett

  Thank You, Stars, Fun

  "Dick Wolf, Mark Burnett Team for Celebrity Military Series at NBC" by Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 05, 2012.

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• More than 48 million men and women have served America well and faithfully in military uniform.

  Steve Buyer

  Military, Men, America

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• The children are designated as "Air Force aides of the Hitler youth" and wear military uniforms and become used to handling the anti-aircraft artillery flak guns. 15 and 16 year old children as warriors! If the war still continues to last for a long time, perhaps the babies will be also employed. Total war!!

  Friedrich Kellner

  Baby, Children, Military

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• A few months ago, and again this week, bin Laden publicly vowed to publicly wage a terrorist war against America, saying, and I quote, "We do not differentiate between those dressed in military uniforms and civilians. They're all targets." Their mission is murder, and their history is bloody.

  William J. Clinton

  War, Military, America

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