Military Quotes - Page 38

• Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled. ... indeed, literacy was so uncommon until classical times that the very writing of a message sufficed to keep it from almost everybody.

  E. J. W. Barber

  Reading, Writing, History

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• To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.

  George McGovern

  War, Failure, Greatness

  1973 Lecture at Oxford University, 21 Jan.

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• And meteorologists have nothing to tell people in Philo, who know perfectly well that the real story is that to the west, between us and the Rockies, there is basically nothing tall, and that weird zephyrs and stirs joined breezes and gusts and thermals and downdrafts and whatever out over Nebraska and Kansas and moved like streams into rivers and jets at and military fronts that gathered like avalanches and roared in reverse down pioneer oxtrails, toward our own personal unsheltered asses.

  David Foster Wallace

  Real, Rivers, Kansas

  "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" by David Foster Wallace, www.nytimes.com. 1997.

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• The Canadian Prime Minister said Canada would lend the U.S. its full military support. You know what that means: Both tanks.

  Jay Leno

  Mean, Support You, Tanks

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• How is it that we can militarily overthrow a military government like Iraq, yet we can't militarily keep illegalities (drugs and aliens) from crossing our borders?

  Chuck Norris

  Government, Iraq, Drug

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• I am a great believer in planning- economic, social, political, military, total world planning.

  Nelson Rockefeller

  Political, World, Planning

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• Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.

  Eduardo Galeano

  War, Names, Democracy

  "Eduardo Galeano, Chronicler of Latin America’s “Open Veins,” on His New Book 'Children of the Days'". Interview With Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. May 8, 2013.

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• In Iraq and Syria, American leadership - including our military power - is stopping ISIL's advance, instead of getting dragged into another ground war in the Middle East, we are leading a broad coalition, including Arab nations, to degrade and ultimately destroy this terrorist group.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, War, Iraq

  Sixth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2015

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• The authorization I propose would provide the flexibility to conduct ground combat operations in other more limited circumstances, such as rescue operations involving U.S. or coalition personnel or the use of special operations forces to take military action against ISIL leadership, it would also authorize the use of U.S. forces in situations where ground combat operations are not expected or intended, such as intelligence collection and sharing, missions to enable kinetic strikes or the provision of operational planning and other forms of advice and assistance to partner forces.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, Advice, Special

  "Obama opens door to 'limited' ground combat operations against ISIS", www.foxnews.com. February 11, 2015.

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• The first task of the Federal Reserve system would be to finance the World War. The European nations were already bankrupt, because they had maintained large standing armies for almost fifty years, a situation created by their own central banks, and therefore they could not finance a war. A central bank always imposes a tremendous burden on the nation for "rearmament" and "defense", in order to create inextinguishable debt, simultaneously creating a military dictatorship and enslaving the people to pay the "interest" on the debt which the bankers have artificially created.

  Eustace Mullins

  War, Army, Order

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• President Vladimir Putin continues to call for new peace plans as his troops roll through the Ukrainian countryside and he absolutely ignores every agreement that his country has signed in the past and he has signed recently, we, the United States, and Europe as a whole, have to stand with Ukraine at this moment. Ukraine needs our financial assistance and support as it pursues reforms and even in the face, in the face of this military onslaught.

  Joe Biden

  Country, Peace, Past

  "Putin's 'little green men' aiding Ukrainian separatists, says Biden", www.foxnews.com. February 06, 2015.

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• Athens' biggest worry was the sheer recklessness of its own democratic government. A simple majority of the citizenry, urged on and incensed by clever demagogues, might capriciously send out military forces in unnecessary and exhausting adventures.

  Thucydides

  Clever, Adventure, Simple

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not degrade me in the military uniform I wear for it represents the love I have for my country, and the sacrifices myself and millions of other American soldiers make everyday to protect the freedom we enjoy by living in the United States of America.

  Larry David

  Love, Country, Freedom

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• Despite everything I've achieved in my life, the culinary awards, the military commendations, the honorary degrees, I have never, ever lost sight of what's truly important. The thing that gives meaning to these triumphs. Someone to share them with. A companion. A help mate. A wife.

  Andrew Schneider

  Life, Sight, Awards

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• One needs to redistribute and restructure expenditures in favour of infrastructure, education and so on. Such military expenditures are heavy to carry.

  Anton Siluanov

  Education, Needs, Favour

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• I got off a plane today at the airbase and I met a whole bunch of military folks there waiting to see me, they all made reference to my son and his military service and expressed their condolences. And although it's still kind of an open wound, it gave me a sense of strength knowing they all meant it.

  Beau Biden

  Strength, Condolences, Son

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• Israel is in the midst of a difficult military and diplomatic campaign against terrorists. An organisation that works to prove allegations that Israel is committing war crimes should be so good as to do so with its own resources and not with civilian national service volunteers and state funds.

  Uri Orbach

  War, Israel, Volunteer

  "Israel bans national service with rights group B'Tselem in Gaza row" by Orlando Crowcroft, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2014.

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• At a time when we must seek to rebuild trust between law enforcement and the local community, I am deeply concerned that the deployment of military equipment and vehicles sends a conflicting message.

  Eric Holder

  Law, Deployment, Community

  "Ferguson violence: Critics rip police tactics, use of military equipment" by Josh Levs, www.cnn.com. August 15, 2014.

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• Actions speak louder than words. The reality is that at least 10 journalists have been killed by the US military, and according to reports I believe to be true journalists have been arrested and tortured by US forces.

  Eason Jordan

  Believe, Reality, Actions Speak Louder Than Words

  "US military 'still failing to protect journalists in Iraq'" by Claire Cozens, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2004.

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• This is a major strategic challenge affecting not only our military, but ultimately, America's leadership in the global world order, we are at a point where our national aspirations are at risk of exceeding our available resources.

  Martin Dempsey

  Leadership, Order, America

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• If worse comes to worst, I say clearly - a soldier must follow military orders.

  Naftali Bennett

  Order, Soldier, Worst

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• A sustainable economy represents nothing less than a higher social order one as concerned with future generations as with our own, and more focused on the health of the planet and the poor than on material acquisitions and military might. While it is a fundamentally new endeavor, with many uncertainties, it is far less risky than continuing with business as usual.

  Lester R. Brown

  Order, Environmental, Might

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• Because by definition they lack any sense of mutuality or wholeness, our specializations subsist on conflict with one another. The rule is never to cooperate, but rather to follow one's own interest as far as possible. Checks and balances are all applied externally, by opposition, never by self-restraint. Labor, management, the military, the government, etc., never forbear until their excesses arouse enough opposition to force them to do so.

  Wendell Berry

  Government, Self, Balance

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• The military is the largest polluter in the country, and so you have a lot of military waste contaminating reservations - as, for example, on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation, where 5,000 sheep died in some kind of experimental military nerve gas test 10 years ago. Many of our communities are dealing with that kind of waste, and an absence of political will to clean them up.

  Winona LaDuke

  Country, Skulls, Sheep

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• Democrats and Republicans alike support our military personnel.

  John Spratt

  Support, Republican, Democrat

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