Military Quotes
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Peace cannot be achieved except after the cessation of military escalation and the economic and financial siege.
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Would that it were so! … That the American military were targeting journalists.
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Hey anyone who thinks a non-military–grade rappelling cable can support the weight of two grown men and a miniature donkey deserves to fall off a cliff.
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When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.
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The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its military might in every way can it develop into a thriving country.
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I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected.
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Privateers, military contractors - these aren't pirates. They have bosses. Real pirates are sellswords on missions of their own making.
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Among the handful of British diplomats and military men aware of their government's secret policy in the Middle East-that the Arabs were being encouraged to fight and die on the strength of promises that had already been traded away-were many who regarded that policy as utterly shameful, an affront to British dignity.
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I find a difference in British spy fiction and American spy fiction. In the American version, it's more militaristic, partly because the CIA has more of the military makeup. Whereas MI6 is more of a cerebral, intelligence-based, relationship-based service, i.e., all they do is recruit people to get information out of them.
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Every Sailor has the potential to lead," said Mullen, "I don't care if it's a seaman recruit or someone higher ranking than myself. Where there's a will, there's a way.
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The one thing I never want to see again is a military parade. When I resigned from the army and went to a farm I was happy. When the rebellion came, I returned to the service because it was a duty. I had no thought of rank; all I did was try and make.
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Anyone who is willing to take a bullet for this country, anyone who is willing to serve in uniform, should at the end of their military service be given an opportunity to become an American citizen.
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America can't provide health care to people who need it. We can't invest in science and technology, which will determine whether or not we are going to be competitive in the long term. There has never been a country on Earth that saw its economy decline and yet maintained its military superiority.
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During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions.
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Anytime it was advertised that I was going to be at a particular place, the radicals would be there, the cameras with TV news.
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I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.
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We need a very strong military to protect the freedoms we do have.
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I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.
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When he emerged Lou Dobbs the populist, he was so hard to peg. A mishmash of contradictions: anti-outsourcing, anti-globalization, pro-international-trade, pro-free-enterprise, anti-corporatism, pro-choice, pro-Second Amendment, pro-gay-marriage, pro-gays-serving-openly-in-the-military, pro-military, anti-war-in-Iraq-and-Afghanistan.
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There are one or two very good women military historians who use imagination, great study and research; they can put themselves in the boots of the soldier.
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Those in power are blind devotees to private enterprise. They accept that degree of socialism implicit in the vast subsidies to the military-industrial-complex, but not that type of socialism which maintains public projects for the disemployed and the unemployed alike.
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When you look at a lot of the military histories, and even modern military history, everyone pretty much refers to each other by nicknames.
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We cannot have a separate group of people that are military and a separate civilian society. Otherwise, it's dangerous to democracy.
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Under Saddam Hussein, the nation of Iraq possessed and used chemical weapons against both their own Kurdish population and Iranian military forces.
Charles B. Rangel
