Military Quotes - Page 19

• I would happily storm hell in the company of these troops ... how strongly they have demonstrated to the world that free men and women can fight like the dickens.

  James Mattis

  Inspirational, Courage, War

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• The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Strong, Successful, Enemy

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• We must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Brave, Just Friends, Enemy

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution”, p.205, Algora Publishing

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• For the mission's sake, our country's sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division's colors in the past battles - who fought for life and never lost their nerve - carry out your mission and keep your honor clean. Demonstrate to the world there is "No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy" than a U.S. Marine.

  James Mattis

  Life, Country, War

  "Eve of Battle Speech". "The Weekly Standard" Magazine, March 1, 2003.

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• I thought what the military was doing was unconstitutional.

  Fred Korematsu

  Unconstitutional

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• Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms.

  Mike Jackson

  Campaigns, Friction, Operations

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• No one will remember that President Obama supported the Arab Spring if it eventually fails and the region collapses back into the political Dark Ages. If we actively engage these movements with advice, with money, and, when necessary, with military force, then we get a vote in how it all turns out.

  Sebastian Junger

  Spring, Dark, Political

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• 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.

  Jack Kingston

  College, Class, Everyday

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• The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its military might in every way can it develop into a thriving country.

  Kim Jong-un

  Country, Might, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's a really classic cliche every time you switch the TV on - you see cops arguing. I have spent a day a week for many years in the presence of police and I have never seen them argue. It's a military hierarchy. They do what they're told. There's no bickering.

  Peter James

  Years, Police, Hierarchy

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• 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.

  John M. McHugh

  America, People, Connections

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• 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.

  Janis Karpinski

  Running, Mps, Support

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• 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.

  Robert Kagan

  Believe, Thinking, Luxury

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• 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.

  David Hackworth

  War, Media, Enemy

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• I had grown up during Vietnam. I had no connections to the U.S. military, and I had a pretty cynical default opinion about the U.S. military.

  Sebastian Junger

  Cynical, Connections, Vietnam

  "A Few Good Men". Interview with Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2010.

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• There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.

  Hari Kunzru

  Thinking, Fiction, Kind

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• Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty.

  Jon Krakauer

  Guilty, Investigation

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• Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.

  Kamisese Mara

  Two, Fiji, Ordeals

  Report to President Ganilau, May 15, 1992.

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• The technical genius which could find answers was not cooped up in military or civilian bureaucracy, but was to be found in universities and in the people at large.

  Henry H. Arnold

  Science, People, Genius

  "The Wind and Beyond: Theodore von Karman, Pioneer in Aviation and Pathfinder in Science". Book by Theodore von Karman, p. 268, 1967.

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

  Richard Leakey

  Distance, Police, Borders

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• A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not about political prestige or military power. This new race involves the whole human species in a contest against time. All of the people of the Earth are in a desperate race against disaster... To save the Earth we must look beyond it, to interplanetary space. To present the collapse of civilization and the end of the world as we know it, we must understand that our planet does not exist in isolation.

  Ben Bova

  Civilization, Space, Race

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• 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.

  Walter Kohn

  Summer, School, Years

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• In a military operation, the command and control elements are a legitimate target.

  Stephen Hadley

  Command And Control, Target, Elements

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• In recent years the military has gradually been eased out of political life in Turkey. The military budget is now subject to much more parliamentary scrutiny than before. The National Security Council, through which the military used to exercise influence over the government is now a purely consultative body. But Turkish society still sees the military as the guarantor of law and order. The army is trusted, held in high regard - though not by dissident liberals. When things go wrong, people expect the military to intervene, as they've intervened over and over again in Turkish history.

  Andrew Mango

  Exercise, Army, People

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• 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.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  War, Alliances, Doe

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