Military Quotes - Page 9

• A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Uplifting, Spiritual

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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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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• Victory is a thing of the will.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Victory

  "The Guns of August". Book by Barbara Tuchman, 1962.

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• When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Youth, Lows, Duty

  "Voluntaries" no. 3 (1867)

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

  Norman Thomas

  Democracy, Liberty

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• Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.

  H. G. Wells

  Democracy, Election, Function

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• O America! Because you build for mankind I build for you.

  Walt Whitman

  America, Mankind

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.197, NYU Press

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• And you can win, though you face the worst, if you feel that you're going to do it.

  Edgar Guest

  Winning, Faces, Worst

  Edgar Guest (1916). “A Heap o' Living'”

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• Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Acquiescence, Way

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798”, p.191, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!

  Walt Whitman

  War, Democracy, Thunder

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.465, Simon and Schuster

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• Ideals are the world's masters.

  J. G. Holland

  Reality, World, Masters

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• The man-at-arms is the only man.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Men, Arms, He Man

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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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• 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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• 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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• I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Believe, Democracy, Energy

  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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• Learn to obey before you command.

  Solon

  Education, Learning, Total War

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• Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Believe, America, Principles

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.130, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war, it's to be prepared for peace.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Forgotten, Be Prepared

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces the conclusion that the indirect is by far the most hopeful and economic form of strategy.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Hopeful, Direct Approach, Campaigns

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• Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Children, War

  Speech in Washington, 16 Apr. 1953, in Public Papers of Presidents 1953 (1960) p. 182

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• Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

  Rebecca West

  Funny, Real, War

  Quoted in Jonathon Green, Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1982)

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• Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Opponents, Resistance, Pressure

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• Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed.

  Norman Cota

  Funny, Letting Go, Beach

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• The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  War, Mean, Purpose

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