Military Quotes
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The ultimate Form of devaluation is military confrontation and global war.
 David Harvey
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My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man.
 Mikhail Baryshnikov
					 
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I decided to join the military to give back to my country and help pay for college.
 Steve Stivers
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I like the ethos of the military and the idea of joining an institution in which, at the very least, everyone who signs up believes in something.
 Phil Klay
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It is hard as an American to support the failure of American military operations in Iraq. Such failure will bring with it the death and wounding of many American service members, and many more Iraqis.
 Scott Ritter
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One should put forth great effort in matters of learning. One should read books concerning military matters, and direct his attention exclusively to the virtues of loyalty and filial piety. Reading Chinese poetry, linked verse, and waka is forbidden. One will surely become womanized if he gives his heart such knowledge of such elegant and delicate refinements. Having been born into the house of a warrior, one's intentions should be to grasp the long and the short swords and to die
 Kato Kiyomasa
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If they turn on their radars we're going to blow up their goddamn SAMs. They know we own their country. We own their airspace. . . . We dictate the way they live and talk. And that's what's great about America right now. It's a good thing, especially when there is a lot of oil out there we need.
 William R. Looney III
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The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people believe that immense fleets and armies are necessary.
 William Cobbett
					 
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The only way we're going to keep America safe is to have an elite military, all right.
 Marcus Luttrell
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My father was stationed at Clark Air Base in the Philippines, which had a hospital where they brought casualties straight from the battlefield. My mother was kind of a sophisticated bohemian, and my father was in the military to make a living.
 Annie Leibovitz
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The military is already sexually integrated.
 Elizabeth Edwards
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The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
 John F. Kennedy
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I got my service dog when I was medically retired out of the military, and it was the best thing that ever happened to me. I wish every medically retired serviceman could have a service dog. He's amazing. He's my best bud. I go everywhere and anywhere with him.
 Marcus Luttrell
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We want to look at how we would respond because, as hard as we work to prevent terrorist attacks here North America, if we have a catastrophic terrorist attack, it is the military that is going to have to go in at the request of civilian authorities.
 Paul Cellucci
					 
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Now therefore, be it Resolved by the Fiftieth Annual Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, That we hereby declare that we are unalterably opposed to any program which would entail the surrender of any part of the sovereignty of the United States of America in favor of a world government.
 Patrick Henry
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If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show, we've got a really big problem.
 Kiefer Sutherland
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And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.
 Rene Cassin
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I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned most of what I know about leadership in the Marine Corps. Certain basic principles stay with you - sometimes consciously, mostly unconsciously.
 Raymond Kelly
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You get a lawyer whether you're in a military tribunal or whether you're in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest - with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make.
 Joe Biden
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U.S. power flows from our unmatched military might, yes. But in a deeper way, it's a product of the dominance of the U.S. economy.
 David Ignatius
					 
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The power of our example is more important than the strength of our military.
 Bill Clinton
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Hillary Clinton is talking about sequester. She's talking about defense spending freezes. He's talking about releasing this sequester, increasing defense spending, increasing the military, increasing our footprint in the world.
 Eric Bolling
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They will avoid ... those Overgrown Military establishements which ... are ... particularly hostile to Republican liberty.
 George Washington
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In no circumstance would the United States or any other nation have the right to mount a military invasion to overthrow another government for the ostensible purpose of achieving disarmament. Rather, the United States would respect the Charter of the UN and would strive to achieve disarmament and settle the differences among nations through peaceful diplomatic means.
 David Cortright