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Military quotes (20) Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. George Washington Category: Military PROJECTILE n. The final arbiter in international disputes. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor and is now held in high esteem by the most courageous. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Military A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. Napoleon Bonaparte Category: Military War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord Category: Military Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia. General George Pickett Gettysburg Category: Military Describing Saddam Hussein of Iraq: He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts nor is he a tactician nor is he a general. Other than that hes a great military man. Norman Schwartzkopf Category: Military If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer waste manpower by carrying the flag into battle. Instead we need battalions of electronic engineers to keep the terrible machinery grinding. Ernest K. Gann Category: Military Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! David G. Farragut Category: Military It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. General George Smith Patton Jr. Category: Military He who does something at the head of one regiment will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred. Abraham Lincoln Category: Military The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle but to make them long for it. Louis Simpson Category: Military Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes. Colonel Samuel Prescott Category: Military At first he thought he felt bad because he was afraid of leading an army but it wasnt true. He knew hed make a good commander. He felt himself wanting to cry. He hadnt cried since the first few days of homesickness after he got here. He tried to put a name on the feeling that put a lump in his throat and made him sob silently however much he tried to hold it down. He bit down on his hand to stop the feeling to replace it with pain. It didnt help. Orson Scott Card Category: Military War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. Georges Clemenceau Category: Military The best soldiers are not warlike. Proverb Category: Military Son we live in a world that has walls and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whos gonna do it? You!? Jack Nicholson Category: Military The sergeant is the Army. General Dwight David Eisenhower Category: Military The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Category: Military Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. Groucho Marx Category: Military A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to and less than that no man shall have. Theodore Roosevelt Category: Military |
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