Military Quotes - Page 26

• Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be considered unpatriotic.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Citizens, Shapes, Want

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Frederick liked to say that three men behind the enemy were worth fifty in front of him.

  Ardant du Picq

  Men, Enemy, Three

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.422, Lulu.com

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• We ain't making no goddamn cornflakes here.

  Charles Alvin Beckwith

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• Will screw them hard, fast, and in an elegant manner.

  Haim Bar-Lev

  Screws, Hard, Elegant

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• The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war.

  Menachem Begin

  War, Agony, Difficulty

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• I gave them a fair warning

  George W. Bush

  Warning, Fairs

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• I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

  Rachel Gibson

  Writing, Men, Havens

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• This will not be a campaign of half measures, and we will accept no outcome except victory.

  George W. Bush

  Victory, Campaigns, Half

  "Bush: 'No outcome except victory" By Bryan Long, www.cnn.com. March 20, 2003.

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• If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism.

  Fidel Castro

  Real, Moving, Yankees

  Fidel Castro (1969). “Fidel Castro Speaks”

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• Don't forget I'm from a military family. I was in special training in the army. I am tall, sporty and - how do you say - you can always protect yourself... I have very strong security.

  Oleg Deripaska

  Strong, Army, Training

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• A beaten general is disgraced forever.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Forever, Beaten

  Ferdinand Foch (1920). “The Principles of War”

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• An Army is still a crowd, though a highly organized one. It is governed by the same laws, and under the stress of war is ever tending to revert to its crowd form. Our object in peace is so to train it that the reversion will become very slow.

  J. F. C. Fuller

  War, Stress, 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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• 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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• I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.

  Ed Case

  Support, Homosexual, Policy

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• 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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• America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.

  Lincoln Chafee

  War, America, Cold

  Lincoln Chafee (2010). “Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President”, p.9, Macmillan

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• We want to look at how we would respond because, as hard as we work to prevent terrorist attacks here North America, if we have a catastrophic terrorist attack, it is the military that is going to have to go in at the request of civilian authorities.

  Paul Cellucci

  America, Looks, Want

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• I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67 and that program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us...

  Robert Crippen

  Half, Astronaut, Nasa

  "STS-1 25th Anniversary Interview with Bob Crippen". Interview with George Diller, www.nasa.gov. April 12, 2006.

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• My husband's family is military. Preparation is just, from that family perspective, it's just a part of what makes sense to do. You buy insurance for your house; you have a go bag.

  Sarah Wayne Callies

  Husband, Perspective, House

  "Q&A – Sarah Wayne Callies (Lori Grimes)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com. November 2010.

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• The military code of justice sets out exactly what type of charges are available for specific acts.

  Saxby Chambliss

  Justice, Type, Code

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• Everybody in the military has a reputation, and usually it doesn't come out to the public.

  Wesley Clark

  Reputation

  "60 minutes" with Dan Rather, www.cbsnews.com. November 19, 2003.

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• I submit that those who run the American military at the top, and those whose boots are on the ground and who run the machinery and equipment, are sending a signal: You asked us to do something. Give us some time and we will solve the problems and we will do it.

  Pete Domenici

  Running, Giving, Boots

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• My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more.

  Sam Donaldson

  Mother, Running, School

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• But apart from the military measures, security measures, of course, Afghanistan needs great help for building up its social life, its economic life. It has become a very poor country, neglected for many years.

  Bulent Ecevit

  Country, Years, Building Up

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