Military Quotes - Page 24

• I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.

  Donna Leon

  Antagonism, Particular

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• The appropriate place to really render honors, and to acknowledge the sacrifice that somebody has made is at the gravesite. And it's at the gravesite because that's where friends and family can be. That's where members of the military unit can gather.

  Brian Whitman

  Sacrifice, Honor, Family And Friends

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• Our police, our hard-working police, that our extraordinarily committed and dedicated military personnel, I'm really pleased that they are getting a good paid parental leave scheme.

  Tony Abbott

  Hard Work, Police, Schemes

  "Josh Frydenberg confirms wife used two parental leave schemes - politics live". Australia politics live with Katharine Murphy, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2015.

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• Choose to win
  Get mad, then get over it.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Winning, Mad, Over It

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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 doesn't teach rifle marksmanship. It teaches equipment familiarity. Despite what the officer corps thinks, learning to shoot a rifle is not like learning to drive a car. Instead, it is like learning to play the violin.... The equipment familiarity learning curve comes up quick, but then the rifle marksmanship continuation of the curve rises very slowly....by shooting one careful shot at a time, carefully inspecting the result (and the cause).

  Daryl Davis

  Gun, Thinking, Curves

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• To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.

  Myriam Miedzian

  War, Doubt, Serious

  Myriam Miedzian (2002). “Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence”, p.71, Lantern Books

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• At the same time I think it is absolutely necessary that there be no confusion, no misunderstanding that if the Iraqis.. do not comply, then there will be consequences and those consequences will involve the use of military force to disarm them through changing the regime.

  Colin Powell

  Thinking, Confusion, Use

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• In the whole history of this country, we have probably won more friends from the power of our example than from the power of our military.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Example, Whole

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• No wonder nobody around the world is nervous about America anymore. No wonder we're not intimidating our adversaries and they're running around wild in the world, because they know we're not investing in our defense anymore. We need to make or military strong, not to wage war, but to avoid war and to bring peace and stability in the world.

  Chris Christie

  Running, Strong, War

  "Shields and Gerson on GOP’s Patriot Act rift, Islamic State’s victories". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 22, 2015.

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• Military simulation is an important way of training people for an emergency

  Greg Gutfeld

  People, Training, Important

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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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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• War is delightful for those who don't know it

  Desiderius Erasmus

  War, Delightful, Knows

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.

  Akhmad Kadyrov

  Troops, Chechnya

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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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• 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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• 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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