Military Quotes - Page 5

• No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Business, War

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• Always make your opponent think you know more than you really know.

  Philip Sheridan

  Thinking, Opponents, Knows

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• It is folly to imagine that the aggressive types, whether individuals or nations, can be bought off ... since the payment of danegeld stimulates a demand for more danegeld. But they can be curbed. Their very belief in force makes them more susceptible to the deterrent effect of a formidable opposing force.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Demand, Belief, Imagine

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• The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential condition of such a strategy is that the drain on him should be disproportionately greater than on oneself.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Balance, Usual, Essentials

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• You don't get very far in life without having to be brave an awful lot. Because we all have our frightening moments and difficult trials and we don't have much of a choice but to get through 'em, and it takes a lot of bravery to do that. The most important thing about bravery is this - It's not about not being scared - it's about being scared and doing it anyway - that's bravery.

  Ysabella Brave

  Brave, Choices, Important

  YouTube Channel "Ysabella Brave"/"Everyday Bravery", www.youtube.com. March 25, 2007.

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• The Lybian army is capable of destroying America and breaking its nose.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Funny, Stupid, Army

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• It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them.

  Winston Churchill

  Army, Inspire, Fallen

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• REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Army, Matter, Congress

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.768, Library of America

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• Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

  Colin Powell

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.52, Ballantine Books

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• To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

  George Washington

  Inspirational, Leadership, Motivation

  1790 First Annual Address, 8 Jan.

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  A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

  Colin Powell

  Motivational, Dream, Determination

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• Wherever you are or whatever your job, don't be confused or diverted by false priorities. We have only one mission to perform-that is to fight and win. And, we must do it better than anyone else in the world.

  Leslie E. Brown

  Inspirational, Jobs, Confused

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• The Marine Corps is proud of the fact that it is a force of combined arms, and it jealously guards the integrity of its air-ground team.

  Keith B. McCutcheon

  Integrity, Team, Patriotic

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• If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.

  William H. McRaven

  Motivational, Littles, Little Things

  "Adm. McRaven Urges Graduates to Find Courage to Change the World". Remarks by Naval Adm. William H. McRaven, ninth commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, at the University-wide Commencement at The University of Texas at Austin, news.utexas.edu. May 16, 2014.

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• We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.

  Nathanael Greene

  Art, War, Fighting

  Nathanael Greene, Richard K. Showman (2005). “The Papers of General Nathanael Greene”, University of North Carolina Press

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• In order to assure an adequate national defense, it is necessary - and sufficient - to be in a position in case of war to conquer the command of the air.

  Giulio Douhet

  War, Air, Order

  General Giulio Douhet (2014). “Command Of The Air”, p.51, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The Marine Corps ... took a boy and made him a man.

  Ed Bearss

  Marine, Men, Boys

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• ...The Marines have been the first to land-on embattled beaches throughout the world-we share the unfaltering confidence of all Americans that they will land again-and land hard.

  Herbert F. Leary

  Confidence, Beach, Marine

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• Success in battle is not a function of how many show up, but who they are.

  Robert H. Barrow

  Inspirational, Success, War

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• In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  War, Marine Corps, Soldier

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• If the Marines are abolished half the efficiency of the Navy will be destroyed. They are as necessary to the well being of a ship as the officers. Instead of decreasing the Corps, I would rather hope to see a large increase, for we feel the want of Marines very much.

  David Dixon Porter

  Hope, Marine, Army

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• The most important thing in fighting was shooting, next the various tactics in coming into a fight and last of all flying ability itself.

  Billy Bishop

  Fighting, Flying, Important

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Well, it is all over now. The battle is lost, and many of us are prisoners, many are dead, many wounded, bleeding and dying. Your Soldier lives and mourns and but for you, my darling, he would rather, a million times rather, be back there with his dead, to sleep for all time in an unknown grave.

  George Pickett

  War, Sleep, Soldier

  George Edward Pickett, La Salle Corbell Pickett (1913). “The Heart of a Soldier: As Revealed in the Intimate Letters of Genl. George E. Pickett”

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• I'm going to fight my way out, I'm going to take all my equipment and all my wounded and as many dead as I can. If we can't get out this way, this Division will never fight as a unit again.

  Oliver P. Smith

  Marine, Army, Fighting

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• Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks.

  Alexander Suvorov

  Fighting, Words Of Wisdom, Enemy

  "Suvorov". Book by K. Ossipov, 1945.

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