Military Quotes - Page 18

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  The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

  George S. Patton

  Country, War, Army

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Get there first with the most men.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  Soldier, Firsts, Great Military

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• The General Order is always:
  ......To manoeuver in a body and on the attack.
  ......To maintain strict but not pettifogging discipline.
  ......To keep the troops constantly at the ready.
  ......To employ the utmost vigilance on sentry go.
  ......To use the bayonet on every possible occasion.
  And to follow up the enemy remorselessly until he is utterly destroyed.

  Lazare Carnot

  Order, Discipline, Enemy

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

  Golda Meir

  Thank God, Thrive, Efficient

  Vogue, July 1969.

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• I used to have a military officer travelling with me at all times with a suitcase - referred to as the nuclear football - in case it had to be used.

  Al Gore

  Football, Suitcases, Nuclear

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• In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Art, War, Moments

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• In Critical and baffling situations, it is always best to return to first principle and simple action

  Winston Churchill

  Simple, Principles, Firsts

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• Presence of mind and courage in distress,
  Are more than arrives to procure success?

  John Dryden

  Presence Of Mind, Mind, Distress

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• I can't see how a single man could spend his time to better advantage than in the Marines.

  Dan Dailey

  Inspirational, Patriotic, Marine

  "The Marines' Bulletin", Vol. 1, Issues 1-3, 1918.

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• In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Three, Moral

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• Give me liberty or give me death.

  Patrick Henry

  Death, Giving, Liberty

  Speech in Virginia Convention, Richmond, Va., 23 Mar. 1775.

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• The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

  Desmond Tutu

  Memorial Day, Peace, Freedom

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• 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.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  War, Law, Enemy

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• I have not yet begun to fight!

  John Paul Jones

  Memorial Day, War, 4th Of July

  Quoted in John Henry Sherburne, Life and Character of the Chevalier John Paul Jones (1825).

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• The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

  Arthur Koestler

  Veterans Day, War, Men

  Janus (1978) prologue

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• We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Veterans Day, Witty, Humorous

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• A soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of the general.

  Henry George Bohn

  Veterans Day, Blood, Soldier

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• If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more murderous war, each of the two peoples will fight with confidence in its own victory, but the most certain victors will be the forces of destruction and barbarism.

  Edouard Daladier

  War, Fighting, Blood

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• I believe that forgiving them is god's function, our job is to arrange the meeting.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Jobs, Believe, Forgiving God

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• Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

  Douglas MacArthur

  Fighting, Marine, Organization

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  Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

  Colin Powell

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

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• The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.

  Martin Van Creveld

  Intelligent, Enemy, Acting

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• Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, War, Rome

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 270

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• Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Veterans Day, Brother

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.32, Wildside Press LLC

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