Military Quotes - Page 35

• Soviet rocket troops possess enough equipment to be able, if need be, to sweep any aggressor from the face of the earth at whatever point of the globe he may be and whatever military power, territory, or economy he may possess.

  Sergey Biryuzov

  Faces, Troops, Needs

  "Military Procurement Authorization", United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, 1963.

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• I think General Pershing was the most military figure I've ever seen.

  Frank Buckles

  Thinking, Figures

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• We still have many shortcomings and failures to fulfill the Party's demands, especially as regards the liquidation in some of our people of survivals of the accursed past in consciousness and conduct and the fulfillment of the demands of our Soviet ethics and military discipline.

  Filipp Golikov

  Party, Past, Discipline

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• I really hate to be put in the position of trying to justify something, a decision that was made. I'm a military guy: when a decision is made, I go along with it, whatever the manufactured controversy and criticism.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Hate, Guy, Decision

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• No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might - but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Issues, Size

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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• Anybody who was in the military or a military family has a certain sensitivity to the separation. Everyone knows military wives have the hardest jobs. I was born into one. When I think back to those days, I didn't appreciate it then.

  Lester Holt

  Jobs, Thinking, Hardest Job

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• Uganda's Constitutional Court will decide whether the military court can proceed with this trial. A nation cannot claim to be operating under the rule of law if its military tribunals ignore the orders of civilian courts.

  Bill Vaughan

  Order, Law, Uganda

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• Everyone is so concerned now where all of the candidates are born. McCain was born on a military base in Panama. Hillary was born outside Chicago, and if you believe the media, Barack Obama was born in a manger.

  Jay Leno

  Believe, Media, Chicago

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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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• In South America euphemism appears to be the grisly preserve of violent power. 'Liberty' was the name of the biggest prison in Uruguay under the military dictatorship, while in Chile one of the concentration camps was called 'Dignity.' It was the self-styled 'Peace and Justice' paramilitary group in Chiapas [Mexico] that in 1997 shot 45 peasants in the back, nearly all of them women and children, as they prayed in a church. What have the souls of the south done over the past few decades to deserve quite so much liberty and dignity and peace and justice?

  Isabel Fonseca

  Children, Past, America

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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'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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• All mathematics is divided into three parts: cryptography (paid for by CIA, KGB and the like), hydrodynamics (supported by manufacturers of atomic submarines) and celestial mechanics (financed by military and other institutions dealing with missiles, such as NASA).

  Vladimir Arnold

  Kgb, Three, Submarines

  "Polymathematics: is mathematics a single science or a set of arts?". Mathematics: Frontiers and Perspectives, edited by V. I. Arnold, M. Atiyah, P. Lax, and B. Mazur, pp. 403 - 416, 2000.

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• We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of version of the one that happened previously.

  Stephen Fry

  War, Mistake, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2004.

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