Military Quotes
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America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.
Lincoln Chafee
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Evading military service has a long history in American life.
John Gregory Dunne
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We will continue to deepen our engagement using every element of American power - diplomacy, military, economic development, the power of our values and our ideals.
Barack Obama
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While the CDC is focusing on how our enemies could attack us, our military is focused on who may attack us.
John Linder
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I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.
John Abizaid
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Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost.
Janis Karpinski
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Well, my father was in the Army and we traveled quite a bit when I was growing up, and I thought that I would like to have a military career, although I was drawn more towards the Navy.
Marc Garneau
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I went into the military because I didn't get a scholarship, a basketball scholarship I thought that I would get.
Carl Hart
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I was born in Chicago, then I spent most of my youth in Joliet, Illinois which is about thirty minutes south, and I went to a military academy for high school in Wisconsin. Then I went to college, on a basketball scholarship to a small school in Iowa, so I'm like Mr. Midwest.
Adam Rapp
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Tool is not Slayer. I went to art school. I spent three years in the military. There's more to me than throwing devil horns.
Maynard James Keenan
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As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence for the man who has an overpowering dread of solitude.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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I spent 23 years in the military. I think I'm in a good position to make those judgments on what is necessary in the military and what is not necessary, without buying a lot of things that would not really add to our security.
John Glenn
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I think that President [Dwight] Eisenhower was... did the most marvelous job in the war, not really a military job: a public relations job, and it was essential that there should be a public relations job done in the post that he had.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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The warrior's gift is to willingly storm Hell that Heaven may remain unstained.
Eva Pigford
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Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
Barry Goldwater
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Our mom was a super strident, capable, and strong individual. I think because she was a military wife in the Marine Corps, she had to push back the things that she believed, and she had to really scrape and fight to have her space.
Nancy Wilson Heart
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Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms.
Mike Jackson
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An overstretched military undermines homeland security and our ability to meet threats around the world.
Ellen Tauscher
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A military leader should always understand, of all human endeavors... the one that's the most unpredictable and the most costly is warfare.
Martin Dempsey
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The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.
Peter DeFazio
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Big successful corporations have established their own culture by the time you come along, so you have as high of a chance of changing their overall culture as you have of convincing the U.S. Marines to adopt the 'long-haired look' as their standard military haircut.
Clay Clark
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The weather records of the U.S.A. are the best kept and most accessible in the world, thanks to consistent government/military taxpayer support. There are longer European data sets, but the U.S.A. data is enough to forecast major extreme events.
Piers Corbyn
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I am proud to be a SEAL and serve in the military.
Brandon Webb
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I don't think the U.S. military is conservative. It's pragmatic.
James Mattis