Military Quotes - Page 7

• When in doubt, ATTACK!

  George S. Patton

  Doubt, Us Army, Attacking

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

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• There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

  William Henry Harrison

  Nature, Exercise, Power

  David A. Durfee, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, United States. President (1841-1845 : Tyler) (1970). “William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

  George S. Patton

  Motivational, Business, Learning

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• I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.

  Alfred M. Gray

  Mother, Running, Father

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• Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Thinking, Drawing, People

  The Times, June 27, 1955.

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• They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Death, Country, Sweet

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Technology, Advancement, May

  "Collected Writings, Volume 1" by Omar N. Bradley, 1967.

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• I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Tongue, Suits, Opinion

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• I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

  H. Rap Brown

  Pie, Violence, Cherries

  Speech at Washington, 27 July 1967, in Washington Post 28 July 1967, p. A7

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• In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, War, Epidemics

  "Buy American. I Am." by Warren Buffett, www.nytimes.com. October 16, 2008.

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  I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

  Fidel Castro

  Men, History, Doe

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 22 Apr. 1959

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• Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Victory, Half, Be Prepared

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.346

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• I never worry about action, but only inaction.

  Winston Churchill

  Worry, Action, Worried

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• Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Preparation, Belief

  "My Early Life: 1874-1904".

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• It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspiring, Giving, Charity

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• Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Determination, Persistence, Force

  Carl von Clausewitz (1956). “On War”, p.1389, Library of Alexandria

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• If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Leadership, Ambition, Audacity

  Carl von Clausewitz (2012). “Principles of War”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• Force always attracts men of low morality.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Peace, War

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.373, Princeton University Press

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• In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Farewell, Responsibility, Government

  Farewell radio and television address to the American people, 17 Jan. 1961

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• One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Support, Public Opinion

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• There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Sports, Bad Ass

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• You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Vietnam, Lasts

  News conference, 7 Apr. 1954

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• The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Peace, War, Conflict

  "Adagia". Book by Desiderius Erasmus, 1500.

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• My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Giving, Battle, Way

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