Military Quotes - Page 40

• The military is focusing only on the short run costs. If they don't provide appropriate body armor, they save some money today, but the healthcare cost is going to be the future for some other president down the line. I view that as both fiscally and morally irresponsible.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Running, Views, President

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.

  Wendell Berry

  Finals, Defeat, Thorough

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.16, Counterpoint

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• The most racist, nastiest act by the USA, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have had some military significance. But Nagasaki was purely blowing away men, women, and children.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Children, Men, Usa

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• Before I became President, in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, there had been fairly dramatic, and I think excessive, reductions in the capability of our military forces, and as a former military man myself - I was a professional naval officer, a submarine officer - I thought it was better, on a step-by-step, very carefully planned way, to increase the technical, or technological, capability of our weapons systems.

  Jimmy Carter

  War, Men, Thinking

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• The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation and they got infected with malaria, and partly cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.

  Bill Gates

  War, Atlanta, People

  "A Q&A with Bill Gate". Interview with Kristi Heim, www.seattletimes.com. September 25, 2007.

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• All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, India, Want

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• God forbid that India should ever become a military nation, which would be a menace to the peace of the world, and yet if things went on as they were doing, what hope was there for India and, therefore, for the world?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Would Be, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

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• If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, India, Looks

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• No police or military in the world can protect people who are cowards.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  People, Police, Coward

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.401, Tara Publishing

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• Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Police, Democracy, Dependence

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• Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Power, Should Have, Police

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• I have spent my life in the study of military strength as a deterrent to war, and in the character of military armaments necessary to win a war. The study of the first of these questions is still profitable, but we are rapidly getting to the point that no war can be won.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Character, Winning

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• Now this brings me to my main topic - our military strength - more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining the economic health that supports our security.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Stay Strong, War, Support

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.326, Best Books on

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• Now all of us deplore this vast military spending. Yet, in the face of the Soviet attitude, we realize its necessity. Whatever the cost, America will keep itself secure. But in the process we must not, by our own hand, destroy or distort the American system. This we could do by useless overspending. I know one sure way to overspend. That is by overindulging sentimental attachments to outmoded military machines and concepts.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Attitude, War, Hands

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• The rapid rise of the People's Republic of China as a military and economic power is challenging the status quo.

  Dan Quayle

  People, Challenges, Challenging The Status Quo

  Source: www.leadersmag.com

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• The warrior's gift is to willingly storm Hell that Heaven may remain unstained.

  R.V.A. Marcell

  Warrior, Heaven, Storm

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• The big issue is whether the United States will succeed in its venture of reshaping the Middle East. It is not clear to me that using military force is the way to do it. We should not have gone into Iraq. But we have.

  Milton Friedman

  Iraq, Issues, Middle East

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• My fear is that that's what's going to happen with robotics and the military. Importantly, this discussion has to involve not just the scientists, but also the political scientists. It's got to be a multidisciplinary discussion. You can't have it be another repeat of what happened with the people working on the atomic bomb.

  Peter Singer

  People, Political, Bombs

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• Many in the American military have learned the fundamental dilemma of modern warfare: More money and better weapons don't mean that you win.

  Gabriel Kolko

  Mean, Winning, Warfare

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Instead of concentrating on the war against poverty, global attention is focused on another kind of slaughter - on something that is intangible and yet being tackled by all the possible military means we can muster. And all the lofty declarations by world leaders about combatting poverty that were lauded by the General Assembly turned out to be damp squibs.

  Muhammad Yunus

  War, Mean, Leader

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Some of the American military obviously were thinking in terms of fighting a nuclear war. I was opposed to that.

  Helmut Schmidt

  War, Fighting, Thinking

  "War And Peace In The Nuclear Age". WGBH Educational Foundation interview, lsopenvault01.wgbh.org. November 12, 1987.

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• President [Ronald] Reagan never has tried to become an expert on military matters. He never has endeavored to learn the most important details in that field, which lead to a situation in which his aides played a much greater roles than aides would have played under President Ford or let us say in the whole Nixon-Ford-Kissinger era.

  Helmut Schmidt

  President, Important, Matter

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• Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military.

  Helmut Schmidt

  War, Men, Hands

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• If somewhere is a deficiency the normal American answer would have been well then, let's spend some more money, build some more weapons and deploy them. That's the normal way of thinking of the military, in America not only but also all over the place, but America or Russia or other countries.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Country, Thinking, America

  WGBH-TV Interview, lsopenvault01.wgbh.org. November 12, 1987.

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• A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive.

  Noah Webster

  Law, People, Inspire

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