Military Quotes

I absolutely hate the way the United States glorifies its military and its wars. Real heroes fight for peace.

~ Michelle Templet

Troops are everywhere in their modern, digital camouflage, designed to blend in anywhere at any time. Yet at night we wear bright yellow reflective belts.

~ Glenn Dean

In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor. James Franck, The Manhattan Project neatly summarize the atmic bomb.

~ James Franck

As a general rule, I am opposed to tax dollars being used for – well, damn near anything, barring mail delivery, law enforcement, and heavy artillery.

~ Markham Shaw Pyle

Every infantryman in the Soviet Army carries with him a small spade. When he is given the order to halt he immediately lies flat and starts to dig a hole in the ground beside him.

~ Viktor Suvorov

Their notion of training was to march the men up and down in parades and reviews: these were nice to look at and gave them the impression of military discipline and precision, but as a preparation for a modern war they had no value whatsoever.

~ Orlando Figes

Most people today couldn't tell a bombardier from a brigadier - said during a lecture in aid of the Army Benevolent Fund in 2009

~ Richard Holmes

Four or five frigates will do the business without any military force.

~ Lord North

My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.

~ Roseanne Barr

As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.

~ George B. Mcclellan

The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought.

~ Henry Waxman

When I grew up, I only had two dreams. One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.

~ Chris Kyle

Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.

~ Garry Trudeau

I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong feeling about participating in it. The military draft was in place, I was summoned for a physical exam, and I was either going to be classified as fit for military service or make my objection to it. So I made my objection to it.

~ Harrison Ford

We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war.

~ Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.

~ Walter Dean Myers

The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.

~ L. Neil Smith

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties.

~ George Soros

Haiti and the Dominican Republic don't just share an island, Hispaniola, but a history, one that includes all the signal events that went into creating the modern world: Columbus, conquest, genocide, slavery, imperial war, revolution, and U.S. counterinsurgencies and military occupations.

~ Greg Grandin

I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.

~ Frank B. Kellogg

The war on drugs is not being won, and it continues to threaten stability and democracy not only in the Andes but throughout the Caribbean as well, where tiny police and military forces are outclassed by the sophisticated equipment in the hands of traffickers passing through the region on the way to their market in this country.

~ Elliott Abrams

One big, glaring difference I can think of between Iraq and Vietnam is the news coverage. During the Vietnam War era, you had TV coverage of the war saturating the airwaves every night, and that coverage wasn't put through a military filter at all.

~ Mark Boal

America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.

~ Lincoln Chafee

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

~ Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.

~ Nelson Mandela

Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.

~ Bernie Sanders

The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed innocent civilians in Dresden and dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.

~ Feisal Abdul Rauf

If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.

~ Sebastian Junger

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

~ John T. Flynn

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

~ Barack Obama

If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.

~ Adam Driver

The word 'geek' today does not mean what it used to mean. A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.

~ Olivia Munn

A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.

~ Olivia Munn

Then, when I got in the military, I used to host - even in high school - I hosted the talent shows, and when I was in the military I would host all of our base Christmas parties and stuff.

~ Gary Owens

I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.

~ Marc Garneau

Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous 'heavy' in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Military deployments have never been something to enjoy, but the consequence of the actions, the shared nature of the sacrifices, and the nobility of the cause are invigorating. To be clear, I'm not talking about the killing and the death; rather, the sense of purpose that pervades every action, reaction, and outcome.

~ Pete Hegseth

Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.

~ Cordell Hull

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.

~ Kim Jong-Un