Military Quotes
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Some in my party threaten to send a message that they don't know a just war when they see it, and more broadly that they're not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom.
Joe Lieberman
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My Administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens. Indeed, I believe that doing so would break with our most important traditions and values as a Nation.
Barack Obama
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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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Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood
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Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
William Blum
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War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.
Alva Myrdal
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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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Israel is in the midst of a difficult military and diplomatic campaign against terrorists. An organisation that works to prove allegations that Israel is committing war crimes should be so good as to do so with its own resources and not with civilian national service volunteers and state funds.
Uri Orbach
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The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.
John T. Flynn
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I try to do as much as I can for the military.
Bill Goldberg
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President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.
Kevin Costner
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My parents were incredibly strict, almost military style.
John Leguizamo
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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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Did you follow what [General Yehoshafat] Harkabi wrote? Formerly of the Israeli military intelligence service. Remember him? Did you follow what he wrote? He said that it was for the sake of the existence of Israel that we have to accept the rights of the Palestinians to have their independent state.
Yasser Arafat
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We have the largest economy and the strongest military in the world. Our core values of freedom and opportunity are ascendant around the globe.
Joe Lieberman
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The warrior's gift is to willingly storm Hell that Heaven may remain unstained.
Eva Pigford
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I have made it a top priority for my administration to deepen cooperation with Israel across the whole spectrum of security issues - intelligence, military, technology.
Barack Obama
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I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it.
William Odom
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I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police.
John Howard
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Four or five frigates will do the business without any military force.
Lord North
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The nearer we come to the full military suppression of the bourgeoisie, the more dangerous becomes to us the high flood of petty-bourgeois Anarchism. And the struggle against these elements cannot be waged with propaganda and agitation alone. ... The struggle must also be waged by applying force and compulsion.
Vladimir Lenin
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To ensure prosperity here at home and peace abroad, we all share the belief we have to maintain the strongest military on the planet.
Barack Obama
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Joining the military is not to be taken lightly. You're putting every part of yourself at risk, not just your body but your moral and spiritual centre.
Kevin Powers
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If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.
William H. McRaven