Military Quotes
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A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.
John F. Kennedy
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The power of our example is more important than the strength of our military.
Bill Clinton
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I was a military spouse, and I lived on military pay. It is very difficult to do that. But we do that with honor and with gratitude for the chance to serve this country.
Carol Shea-Porter
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In order to achieve it a military threat may be needed.
Javier Solana
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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
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The president and I sat down in the Oval Office, and he expressed very clearly that what he wants from me is my best professional military advice.
David Petraeus
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We turned our back on Israel, our ally. You know, and a situation like that, of course Barack Obama's not going to be able to do anything. I would shore up our military first, because if you don't get the military right, nothing else is going to work.
Benjamin Carson
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I've always been fascinated by the military, the discipline they have and the sacrifices they make to defend the country. It's something I've always been interested in.
Troy Polamalu
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The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was enacted in 1865 by martial law. The Fourteenth Amendment was enacted in 1868 by martial law. The Fifteenth Amendment was enacted in 1870 by martial law. Military occupation of the Southern states did not end until 1877, twelve years after the end of the Civil War.
Eustace Mullins
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Training a reliable military force that adheres to Western norms and standards is the work of a generation, not a few months.
David Ignatius
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More than 48 million men and women have served America well and faithfully in military uniform.
Steve Buyer
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I don't come from a lot of money and wasn't going to get an academic scholarship, so the only way to afford an education was to allow the military to supplement it.
Jon Huertas
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Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit - It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.
Robert W. Service
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The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies.
Paul Cook
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JAG is an acronym for the Judge Advocate General, which is the judicial system of the military.
Catherine Bell
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The North knows it cannot enjoy true security so long as the South is enjoying itself next door, be it ever so harmless in military terms and even free of US troops.
Brian Reynolds Myers
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Today we slaughtered them in the airport. They are out of Saddam International Airport
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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While we listened carefully to the input from the local communities, military value was our top priority.
Anthony Principi
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If a person is a U.S. citizen, and he is on the battlefield in Afghanistan or Iraq trying to attack our troops, he will face the full brunt of the U.S. military response.
John O. Brennan
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Civic participation over a lifetime, working in neighborhoods and communities and service of all kinds - military and civilian, full-time and part-time, national and international - will strengthen America's civic purpose.
John McCain
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We need to be doing lots of other things with the resources that we have. So economic power works just as well as military power, perhaps even better. And speaking of that, our Military needs to be upgraded.
Benjamin Carson
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The first and absolute requirement of strategic air power in this war was control of the air in order to carry out sustained operations without prohibitive losses.
Tooey
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We periodically note that there are no silver bullets, there are no magic formulas, there's no single action or component of the overall... comprehensive civil-military approach.
David Petraeus