Military Quotes - Page 8

• Americans never quit.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Perseverance, Usa, America

  The New York Times (p. 13), August 9, 1928.

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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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• Either war is obsolete, or men are.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Veterans Day, Peace, War

  Quoted in New Yorker, 8 Jan. 1966

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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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• War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

  Bertrand Russell

  Peace, War, Fighting

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• There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

  William Halsey

  Men, History, Navy

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• Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

  Winston Churchill

  Being Strong, Veterans Day, Stay Strong

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.395, Da Capo Press

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• There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself.

  H. L. Mencken

  Records, Valuable, Nations

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• I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Love, Army, Fighting

  Letter to Sir William Spring, September 1643, in Thomas Carlyle 'Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches' (2nd ed., 1846)

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• Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Ruins, Subjects, Nations

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• Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

  Sigmund Freud

  Being Strong, Men, Ideas

  Sigmund Freud (2014). “Freud Verbatim”, p.38, The Overlook Press

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• To ensure attaining an objective, one should have alternate objectives. An attack that converges on one point should threaten, and be able to diverge against another. Only by this flexibility of aim can strategy be attuned to the uncertainty of war.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  War, Should Have, Able

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• Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.

  Lord Byron

  Tyranny, Worst

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• There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words "my country" may evoke.

  William Ralph Inge

  Country, Noble, May

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  It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Inspiring, Courage, Veterans Day

  Norman Schwarzkopf (2010). “It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography of General Norman Schwarzkopf”, p.13, Bantam

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• Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?

  George C. Wallace

  Funny, Air, Years

  "Absurdities, Scandals & Stupidities in Politics". Book by Hakeem Shittu and Callie Query, p. 106, 2006.

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• Human life is the only thing that takes care of itself.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Care, Life Is, Human Life

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• I speak the password primeval; I give the sign of democracy.

  Walt Whitman

  Giving, Democracy, Speak

  Walt Whitman (2015). “Leaves of Grass: Top Classic Poetry”, p.76, 谷月社

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• The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Names, Honor, Duty

  Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence”, Best Books

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• The man-at-arms is the only man.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Men, Arms, He Man

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• Learn to obey before you command.

  Solon

  Education, Learning, Total War

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• Give obedience where 'tis truly owed.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Obedience

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English”, p.7392, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.

  Seneca the Younger

  Soldier, And Love, Flags

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• He who would save liberty must put his trust in democracy.

  Norman Thomas

  Democracy, Liberty

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• In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, but westward, look, the land is bright.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Land, Sun, Looks

  "Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth" l. 15 (1855)

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