Military Quotes - Page 34

• My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.

  W. E. B. Griffin

  Backgrounds, Distinguished, My Own

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• Sergeant Bergdahl may have broken any number of military laws.

  Alex Berenson

  Law, Numbers, Broken

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• I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.

  Karl Marlantes

  Kids, Thinking, Iwo Jima

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• I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well then we call that bragging. And if you are unhappy about what happened, we call that complaining. And so what are you going to do?

  Karl Marlantes

  Mean, Unhappy, Complaining

  "'Matterhorn' Author On What It's Like 'To Go To War'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. August 30, 2011.

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• And I think that it's - the military has actually made improvements, so people are considering post-traumatic stress disorder as, at the least, a possible psychological problem. You know, when I was in Vietnam, it was just considered malingering. And we're making progress.

  Karl Marlantes

  Stress, Thinking, People

  "'Matterhorn' Author On What It's Like 'To Go To War'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. August 30, 2011.

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• Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated; it was in Vietnam that American integration happened in the military - and it wasn't easy.

  Karl Marlantes

  War, Race, Different

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• Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to ensure fair pay for women in the workplace. In addition, he succeeded in getting a measure passed to end discrimination against gays in the military.

  Kitty Kelley

  Gay, Pay, Discrimination

  "Obama and the Legacy of Camelot" by Kitty Kelley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2013.

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• I've always been fascinated by the military, the discipline they have and the sacrifices they make to defend the country. It's something I've always been interested in.

  Troy Polamalu

  Country, Sacrifice, Discipline

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• I am not a politician or a military strategist. I am just a citizen voicing my opinions.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Citizens, Opinion, Politician

  "The "Ist" Du Jour". Interview with Joshua Frank, www.counterpunch.org. October 3, 2005.

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• To confine soldiers to purely military functions while urgent and vital tasks have to be done, and nobody else is available to undertake them, would be senseless. The soldier must then be prepared to become a propagandist, a social worker, a civil engineer, a schoolteacher, a nurse, a boy scout. But only for as long as he cannot be replaced, for it is better to entrust civilian tasks to civilians.

  David Galula

  Boys, Nurse, Long

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• Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.

  Harold E. Varmus

  War, School, Careers

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• The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons to spy on the other side, tracking troop movements and helping to direct artillery fire.

  Michael Hastings

  War, Air, Ideas

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• The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.

  Michael Hastings

  Stress, Cia Agents, Admitting

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• During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the military conducted only a handful of drone missions.

  Michael Hastings

  Iraq, Invasion, Drones

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• No one in al-Nahda believes that jihad is a way to impose Islam on the world. But we believe that jihad is self-control, is social and political struggle, and even military jihad is only a way to defend oneself in the case of aggression.

  Rashid al-Ghannushi

  Believe, Struggle, Self

  "Rached Ghannouchi: the FP interview". Interview with Marc Lynch, foreignpolicy.com. December 5, 2011.

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• We need to reduce military budgets; raise living standards; engender respect for learning; support science, scholarship, invention, and industry; promote free inquiry; reduce domestic coercion; involve the workers more in managerial decisions; and promote genuine respect and understanding derived from an acknowledgement of our common humanity and our common jeopardy.

  Carl Sagan

  Common Humanity, Decision, Support

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium”, p.178, Ballantine Books

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• I realized that both the military and religious orders depend on discipline to shape people - which routine does, in a lot of ways.

  Kit Reed

  Religious, Order, Discipline

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• You want to stay alive in a zombie swarm? You go alone or in a small group, where everyone is of similar physical condition and weapons training. You never stop, you never hesitate, and you never show any mercy for the people that would slow you down.That is what the military says we should do, and if I ever meet anybody who listens to that particular set of commands, I may shoot them myself just to improve the gene pool. When you can help people stay alive, you help them. We're all we've got.

  Mira Grant

  People, Training, Zombie

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• First, the constitution ought to secure a genuine and guard against a select militia, by providing that the militia shall always be kept well organized, armed, and disciplined, and include, according to the past and general usuage of the states, all men capable of bearing arms; and that all regulations tending to render this general militia useless and defenceless, by establishing select corps of militia, or distinct bodies of military men, not having permanent interests and attachments in the community to be avoided.

  Patrick Henry

  Past, Men, Community

  "Additional Letters From The Federal Farmer", 169, 1788.

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• While things on the surface seem more quiet than at any time since last summer, I do not like the maintenance of what amounts to almost full mobilization in aggressor countries. Surely they cannot afford it and if they had any definite policy of trying to work out economic salvation (except by arms) they would be showing some signs of cutting military expenditures.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Summer, Country, War

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• The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Army, Chiefs, Compulsory

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “WAR AND PEACE Complete Edition – All 15 Books in One Volume (World Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of Anna Karenina & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including the Biography & Memoirs of the Author)”, p.651, e-artnow

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• Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Art, Truth, Honesty

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1865). ““Church and Queen.” Five speeches delivered by the Rt. Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., 1860-1864. Edited, with a preface, by a member of the University of Oxford [i.e. the Hon. Frederick Lygon, afterwards Earl Beauchamp].”, p.72

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• According to true military art, one should never push one's enemy to the point of despair, because such a state multiplies his strength and increases his courage which had already been crushed and failing, and because there is no better remedy for the health of beaten and overwhelmed men than the absence of all hope.

  Francois Rabelais

  Art, War, Men

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• Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because, pointing out the inhabitants and citizens of the city, so expert in military discipline and so strong and well armed: "Here," he said, "are the walls of the city," meaning that there is no wall but of bones, and that towns and cities can have no more secure nor stronger wall than the virtue of their citizens and inhabitants.

  Francois Rabelais

  Strong, Wall, Cities

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• If there is no military need for the building, leave it alone, neither putting anyone in or out of it, except on finding some one preaching or practicing treason, in which case lay hands on him, just as if he were doing the same thing in any other building.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Hands, Atheism, Needs

  Abraham Lincoln, Roy Prentice Basler (1953). “Collected Works: The Abraham Lincoln Association, Springfield, Illinois. Roy P. Basler, Editor; Marion Dolores Pratt and Lloyd A. Dunlap, Assistant Editors”

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