Military Quotes - Page 32

• Voroshilov was a hard-riding, hard-drinking military crony of civil-war days.

  Kliment Voroshilov

  War, Drinking, Riding

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• The allure of military life and its heroic promise seem indestructible, but nothing threatens the romance of war more effectively than war itself.

  Elizabeth Samet

  War, Romance, Promise

  Elizabeth D. Samet (2007). “Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point”, p.55, Macmillan

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• I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertakers assistant, then a plasterer, before doing my military service in the RAF. All the while, I was doing amateur dramatics and dreaming of getting a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

  Brian Blessed

  Dream, Father, School

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• I have a tremendous amount of respect for military families. To have to worry about your loved ones and still try and live a normal life is extremely hard.

  Ashanti

  Worry, Trying, Normal

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• We don't have any intention whatsoever to use military force to solve the Palestinian problem. But when it comes to terror - when it comes to terror, I believe that military - the right military steps is a very, very complicated kind of warfare, where I make every effort not to escalate the situation.

  Ariel Sharon

  Believe, Effort, Warfare

  "Transcript: Ariel Sharon Interview", www.foxnews.com. January 2, 2002.

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• I can tell you I also smoked cigars 10 years before, and the watch, which is a Patek Philippe - it was my former wife who bought it for me as a gift when I completed my military service. What is all of this about anyway? I'm no wealthier than Bibi Netanyahu or Arik Sharon. I don't feel that I'm more hedonistic than Ehud Olmert, or Yitzhak Rabin or Shimon Peres.

  Ehud Barak

  Years, Wife, Watches

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• Immigrants bring to America the values of faith in God, love of family, hard work and self reliance - the values that made us a great nation to begin with. We've all seen those values in action, through the service and sacrifice of more than 35,000 foreign-born men and women currently on active duty in the United States military.

  George W. Bush

  Hard Work, Humor, Sacrifice

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• We're certain there are people that can't stand what America stands for... We're certain there are madmen in this world, and there's terror, and there's missiles and I'm certain of this, too: I'm certain to maintain the peace, we better have a military of high morale, and I'm certain that under this administration, morale in the military is dangerously low.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, America, People

  "Bush, in his own words" by Jacob Weisberg, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2000.

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• The most successful of the Tartar princes assumed the military command, to which he was entitled by the superiority either of merit or of power. He was raised to the throne by the acclamations of his equals; and the title of Khan expresses, in the language of the North of Asia, the full extent of the regal dignity. The right of hereditary succession was long confined to the blood of the founder of the monarchy; and at this moment all the Khans, who reign from Crimea to the wall of China, are the lineal descendants of the renowned Zingis.

  Edward Gibbon

  Wall, Successful, Blood

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V2: the History Focus”, p.354, 谷月社

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• I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.

  Bayard Rustin

  War, Issues, Preparation

  Bayard Rustin (2003). “Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• I didnt go into the NASA program to pick up rocks or to go the moon or anything else. I went in there because I was a military officer, and that was the next notch in my profession.

  Jim Lovell

  Moon, Rocks, Next

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• I'm not a policy and a strategy guy. I'm - you know, the military basically supports what the president wants, the decisions that he makes.

  Michael Mullen

  Support, Guy, Decision

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• The military is faithful to the constitution. They will come in only to protect the people from the enemies of the state.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  People, Faithful, Enemy

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• The military is very constitutionalist, and I have my faith in them and in the cooler heads of the people.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  People

  "Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Talkasia Transcript". www.cnn.com. August 10, 2005.

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• After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who uncharacteristically bowed out precisely on the promised date for military disengagement. Did the military truly disengage, however? No.

  Wole Soyinka

  Years, Administration, Dictator

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• The consequences of President Johnsons campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president, his party, and the presidency itself.

  Eric Alterman

  Party, Deception, President

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• At Lackland Air Force Base, they make an effort to retrain military dogs that suffer from PTSD. It's a lengthy, long process. The treatment is much the same as it would be for people, but it's a difficult road back.

  Robert Crais

  Dog, Air, Long

  "Novelist loses a dog, finds a heroine in "Suspect". interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. January 21, 2013.

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• I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned most of what I know about leadership in the Marine Corps. Certain basic principles stay with you - sometimes consciously, mostly unconsciously.

  Raymond Kelly

  Marine, Self, Principles

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• The growth of entrepreneurial classes throughout the world is an asset in the promotion of human rights and individual liberty, and it should be understood and used as such. Yet peace is the first and most important condition for continued prosperity and freedom. America's military power must be secure because the United States is the only guarantor of global peace and stability. The current neglect of America's armed forces threatens its ability to maintain peace.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Class, America, Rights

  "Campaign 2000: Promoting the National Interest" by Condoleezza Rice in Foreign Affairs, Volume 79, No. 1, www.foreignaffairs.com. January/February 2000.

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• The events in Prague, together with the Berlin blockade, convinced the European recipients of American economic assistance that they needed military protection as well: that led them to request the creation of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which committed the United States for the first time ever to the peacetime defense of Western Europe.

  John Lewis

  Europe, Organization, Together

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• The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.

  Hank Johnson

  War, Agency, Law

  "Reject Indefinite Detention; Defend the Constitution" by Rep. Hank Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2011.

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• One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Worry, Intellectual, Want

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• Duarte is a moderate when it comes to civilian control of the military and curbing death squads. On economics, the man is almost a Marxist.

  Steve Forbes

  Men, Squad, Economics

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• It is no coincidence that when the thugs tried to wrest control over Grenada, there were 30 Soviet advisors and hundreds of Cuban military and paramilitary forces on the island.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Thug, Islands

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1983). “Ronald Reagan”

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• I have never met a man [in the military], in or out of uniform, who ever said, "Let's use the missiles." They are even more terrified that the Bishops, because a great many of them don't expect to go to Heaven, which at least the Bishops do.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Peace, War, Men

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