Military Quotes - Page 21

• Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Israel, Cities, Citizens

  Transcript of Mahmoud Abbas Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.haaretz.com. September 23, 2011.

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• My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.

  Dierks Bentley

  Country, Dad, Army

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

  Gloria Swanson

  Father, World

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• It doesn't take a military genius to see we'll all be crispy critters after World War III.

  Al Yankovic

  Peace, War, Special

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• The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability in a man as they do in a telephone or a machine gun, and they train their soldiers to act as a unit, not as individuals.

  Marlon Brando

  Gun, Men, Soldier

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• Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.

  Thomas Paine

  Life, Spirit, Defence

  Thomas Paine (1856). “Common Sense: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America”, p.53

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• While our nation faces many challenges that must be met regarding homeland security and our military readiness, it is imperative that we live within our means and wisely spend taxpayer dollars.

  Michael Dean Crapo

  Mean, Challenges, Dollars

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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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• If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.

  Abdallah II

  Looks, Conflict, Interest

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• When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.

  Abdallah II

  Running, Pieces, Status Quo

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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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• 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.

  Martin McGuinness

  Car, Facts, Elements

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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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• 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.

  Leo Ornstein

  People, Precision, Exciting

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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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• 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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• I thought what the military was doing was unconstitutional.

  Fred Korematsu

  Unconstitutional

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• I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful of other people, ended up being kidnapped and held hostage at gunpoint in a windowless room with no ventilation for 36 hours.

  Brigitte Nielsen

  People, Shooting, Rooms

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• My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.

  Lord Mountbatten

  Trophies, Usefulness, Values

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

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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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• To survive in a lot of male-dominated situations - the police, the military, what have you - you put on a bit of the crass, blowhard thing, because you just can't survive being the nice guy in those environments.

  Dean Norris

  Nice, Guy, Police

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

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• 2.2 billion worth of military equipment had been stripped from U.S. Forces in West Germany and America and shipped to Israel in an unprecedented day and night airlift.

  George Scratchley Brown

  Night, Israel, West Germany

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

  Barbara Lee

  United States, Action, Terrorism

  Statement in Opposition to H.J. Res. 64, delivered 14 September 2001

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• I'm pretty actively involved with the military because I think they're incredible human beings. If I can give back to them for what they're doing for us, it's a good thing. And I think to have happy soldiers, you need to feed them well.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Thinking, Giving, Soldier

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