Military Quotes - Page 24

• In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.

  Walter Bagehot

  Religious, Analogies, Alive

  Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.63

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• Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff. During a briefing military stuff in which officials began telling him about missile silos.

  Sean William Scott

  Agriculture, Waiting, Want

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• If the people are victorious against the government, the nation will be weak; if the government is victorious against the people, the military will have strength. [thus they] will have the means by which they may fight, and thus ascend to supremacy.

  Shang Yang

  Mean, Fighting, Government

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• Of course, there were huge disagreements in the arguments of military intervention, .. There is no point at the moment on focusing on those disagreements.

  Chris Patten

  Argument, Moments, Intervention

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• Would you respect a God you could comprehend? And yet very often that’s what we want - a God who reflects our culture, our biases, our economic, political, and military systems.

  Richard Rohr

  Respect, Political, Culture

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• Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.

  Henry Fuseli

  Religious, Art, Race

  1789 Aphorisms on Art, no.149 (published 1831).

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• Secretary of state Colin Powell himself eloquently pointed out the many ways to get at the root of this problem... economic, diplomatic, legal and political, as well as military. A rush to launch precipitous military counterattacks runs too great a risk that more innocent men, women and children will be killed. I could not vote for a resolution that I believe will lead to such an outcome.

  Barbara Lee

  Running, Children, Believe

  "Congress has given Bush a free hand - and that puts more lives at risk". www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2001.

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• One of the most important factors, not only in military matters but in life as a whole, is ... the ability to direct one's whole energies towards the fulfillment of a particular task.

  Erwin Rommel

  Important, Energy, Tasks

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• The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Government, Cities, Decision

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.130, I.B.Tauris

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• Everywhere you go on the continent of Europe at this hour you see the conflict between militarism and industrialism. You see the expansion of industrial power pushed forward by the energy, hope, and thrift of men, and you see the development arrested, diverted, crippled, and defeated by measures which are dictated by military considerations.

  William Graham Sumner

  Power, Men, Europe

  William Graham Sumner (1919). “War and Other Essays”

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• If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.

  Omar Bongo

  Fighting, Hands, United States

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• Peace cannot be achieved except after the cessation of military escalation and the economic and financial siege.

  Yasser Arafat

  Siege, Financial, Economic

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• The United States has been ambiguous on the current situation in Nepal. They have not actually come out very strongly in terms of pushing the king to take measures on the detentions or abuses by the army. China continues to provide military equipment.

  Irene Khan

  Kings, Army, Abuse

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• If they succeed in creating an inclusive structure in virtually any peaceful form, Iraq succeeds. If they fail, the U.S.-led coalition fails almost regardless of its military success and that of the new Iraqi forces, and Iraq will move towards division, paralysis, civil conflict and/or a new strongman.

  Anthony H. Cordesman

  Moving, Civilization, Iraq

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• Images of burning Red Cross and UN buildings struck by US bombs contrasted with images of thousands of desperately poor Afghan women carrying sickly and starving children out of Afghanistan as they flee the might of the US military is tearing at international public confidence in our war against terrorism.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Children, War, Burning

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• Disarmament should be conducive to the enhancement of every country's general security instead of becoming the instrument and means for a few countries to strengthen their military superiority by weakening or restricting other countries.

  Sha Zukang

  Country, Mean, Enhancement

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• The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils.

  Lord Mountbatten

  War, Race, Add

  Speech at Strasbourg, 11 May 1979, in P. Ziegler 'Mountbatten' (1985) ch. 52

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• During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under martial law have been so numerous as to have become an old story. They are attacked at the instigation of an economically and socially powerful class, itself enjoying to the full the advantages of free communications, but bent on denying them to the class it holds within its power.

  Edward Alsworth Ross

  Powerful, War, Communication

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• Instead of scrambling for security in national victory and domination, in preparation for war and military aggression, we must relearn the values of cooperation and sharing, of nonviolence and support.

  Marva Dawn

  Peace, War, Support

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• The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Victory, Allies

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• War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  War, Mean, Fighting

  "May I Quote You, General Forrest?". Book by Randall Bedwell, 1996.

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• The Air Force comes in every morning and says, 'Bomb, bomb, bomb' ... And then the State Department comes in and says, 'Not now, or not there, or too much, or not at all.'

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Morning, Air, Too Much

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• Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

  Josephus Daniels

  Mistake, Army, Men

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• In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Peace, War, Eye

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• One brave deed makes no hero.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sports, Hero, Reality

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.194

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