Military Quotes - Page 33

• Members of the media-monetary-military-congressional complex are immoral and have an allergy to the truth.

  Ilana Mercer

  Media, Allergies, Embers

  "What if the Media Were Moral?". www.wnd.com. October 17, 2013.

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• The nature of encounter operations required of the commanders limitless initiative and constant readiness to take the responsibility for military actions.

  Georgy Zhukov

  Responsibility, Encounters, Action

  "The Military Quotation Book" by James Charlton, (p. 49), 2002.

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• I think the worst thing in the world is to have the courts decide who to target in the war on terrorism. And courts are not military commanders.

  Lindsey Graham

  War, Thinking, World

  "Sen. Lindsey Graham talks Hagel, Brennan nominations; Sen. Rand Paul on the Obama agenda, Republican policy". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. February 17, 2013.

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• The idea of achieving security through national armament is, at the present state of military technique, a disastrous illusion.

  Albert Einstein

  Ideas, Technique, Illusion

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.159, Broadway Books

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• I might have arguments with the size of Reagan's military buildup, but given the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, staying ahead of the Soviets militarily seemed a sensible thing to do. Pride in our country, respect for our armed services, a healthy appreciation for the dangers beyond our borders, an insistence that there was no easy equivalence between East and West--in all this I had no quarrel with Reagan. And when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, I had to give the old man his due, even if I never gave him my vote.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Appreciation, Wall

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.289, Canongate Books

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• It's been over a year since they've graduated, but neither of the Bush twins have found any work. Why don't they sign up (for military service in Iraq)? Do they hate America, or just freedom in general?

  Bill Maher

  Hate, Years, Iraq

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• Men since the beginning of time have sought peace...military alliances, balances of power, leagues of nations, all in turn have failed, leaving the only path to be by way of the crucible of war. The utter destructiveness of war not blots out this alternative.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Men, League

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• Teller contended, not implausibly, that hydrogen bombs keep the peace, or at least prevent thermonuclear war, because the consequences of warfare between nuclear powers are now too dangerous. We haven't had a nuclear war yet, have we? But all such arguments assume that the nuclear-armed nations are and always will be, without exception, rational actors, and that bouts of anger and revenge and madness will never overtake their leaders (or military and secret police officers in charge of nuclear weapons). In the century of Hitler and Stalin, this seems ingenuous.

  Carl Sagan

  Revenge, War, Hydrogen Bomb

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• To engage in war is always to pick a wild card. And war must always be a last resort, not a first choice. I truly must question the judgment of any president who can say that a massive unprovoked military attack on a nation which is over 50 percent children is ‘in the highest moral traditions of our country.'

  Robert Byrd

  Country, Peace, Children

  "The Byrd That Roared" by Matteen Mokalla, www.motherjones.com. March 2004.

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• The power of our example is more important than the strength of our military.

  William J. Clinton

  Peace, War, Important

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• The pre-war empire had been sufficiently informal and sufficiently cheap for Parliament to claim authority over it without having to concern itself too much about what this authority entailed. The post-war empire necessitated a much greater investment in administrative machinery and military force. This build-up of control had to be paid for, either by British taxpayers or by their colonists.

  Linda Colley

  War, Empires, Too Much

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• Recognising that an ostentatious cult of heroism and state service served an important propaganda function for the British elite does not mean, of course, that we should dismiss it as artificial or insincere. All aristocracies have a strong military tradition, and for many British patricians the protracted warfare of the period was a godsend. It gave them a job, and, more important, a purpose, an opportunity to carry out what they had been trained to do since childhood: ride horses, fire guns, exercise their undoubted physical courage and tell other people what to do.

  Linda Colley

  Strong, Horse, Jobs

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• Medieval England was a great military power with a sophisticated machinery of government, but her naval administration, at best improvised and for long periods missing altogether, pointed to a grave weakness: the lack of any reliable means of putting a force of warships at the disposal of the crown. Only Richard I and Henry V of all the kings of England can be said to have understood the problem and attempted to remedy it. It is no coincidence that they wer by far the most successful in war.

  Nicholas Rodger

  Kings, War, Mean

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• It was possibly the most circumspect advance in the history of military maneuvers, right down at the bottom end of the scale that things like the Charge of the Light Brigade are at the top of.

  Terry Pratchett

  Light, History, Discworld

  "Guards! Guards!". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• I did a real boot camp once which with The Thin Red Line which was learning military exercises and this was far less strenuous. I really had a blast. We were all kind of thrown into the woods and we didn't have any of the modern conveniences that we take for granted. Learned how to survive without anything.

  Adrien Brody

  Real, Exercise, Boots

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. July 30, 2004.

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• Florence Nightingale was an amazing figure. She created the American Red Cross. She saw the suffering from bad health conditions on the battlefield and in the military hospitals, and she fought like crazy to change the conditions; to make sure that the doctors washed their hands and practiced sanitary measures. She put herself at great risks.

  Sharon Lawrence

  Crazy, Doctors, Hands

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is nothing for me to be sour about. What you got to understand is that I'm a military man. We usually do my shift for four or five years and then you got to move on.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Moving, Men

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• The reality is that there are half a billion kids in India, in villages, who have a pre-determined life. If they're very lucky and they're a gifted athlete, maybe they can compete for the Olympics, or maybe they can get into the military. But if you're not a gifted athlete, then you're going to end up working for your family and you're going to perpetuate what your family is. It's gotten to the point, in villages, where there's no hope. And the first spark of hope is when you ask yourself the question,"What gift did God give me that I can develop and use to better my life?"

  J. B. Bernstein

  Kids, Athlete, Reality

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• Beneath a free government there is nothing but the intelligence of the people to keep the people's peace. Order must be preserved, not by a military police or regiments of horse-guards, but by the spontaneous concert of a well-informed population, resolved that the rights which have been rescued from despotism shall not be subverted by anarchy.

  Edward Everett

  Horse, Order, Rights

  Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and speeches on various occasions”, p.609

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• [On the Internet and activism:] The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on. In a way, the highest purpose of the Internet is to bring us together for empathy and action. After all, the reflector cells and empathy-producing chemicals in our brains only work when we're physically together with all five senses. You can't raise a baby online.

  Gloria Steinem

  Baby, Real, Government

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• It is not enough to take this weapon out of the hands of soldiers. It must be put into the hands of those who will know how to strip its military casing and adapt it to the arts of peace.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Art, Hands, Soldier

  Address before the General Assembly of the United Nations on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, www.iaea.org. December 08, 1953.

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• The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Character, Israel, Achievement

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• Untrained minds have always been a nuisance to the military police of orthodoxy. God-intoxicated mystics and untidy saints with only a white blaze of divine love where their minds should have been, are perpetually creating almost as much disorder within the law as outside it.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Should Have, Law, White

  Katherine Anne Porter, Darlene Harbour Unrue (2008). “Collected stories and other writings”

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• The war with Iraq ... had to be one of the greatest non sequiturs in military history. Attacked by a gang composed largely of Islamic militants from Saudi Arabia, the United States countered by invading an unrelated country, and one of the most secular in the Middle East at that.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Country, War, Islamic

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2008). “Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation”, Granta Books (UK)

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• Marx was wrong: It is not only the 'means of production' that shape societies, but the means of destruction. In our own time, the costs of war, or just war readiness, are daunting. ... The resulting cost squeeze has led to a new type of society, perhaps best terms a 'depleted' state, in which the military has drained reources from all other social functions.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  War, Mean, Cost

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