Military Quotes

I suddenly felt like the Grinch feels when he discovers what Chrismas is all about. For the first time in a long time, I felt like I had a purpose being in the Navy. It wasn't about money and rank or prestige. It was about raising the flag. We do what we do because no one else can or will do it. We fight so others can sleep at night. And I had forgotten that.

~ Timothy Ciciora

There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Soon I was weeping---for the reservists who put their entire lives on hold when called to duty, for the military mothers who had to keep their families together all alone, for the parents, spouses, sons, and daughters who were beset with worry, for Mike, and for the soldiers who would never come home. I only meant to buy a shower curtain, and now, quite unexpectedly, right when I least wanted it, months of pent-up loneliness, fear, and frustration were pouring out in an endless churn of hot, silent tears.

~ Lily Burana

We had it drilled into us time and time again: 'If someone above you falls, grip tightly to the vertical rope and cradle that person in your arms until help can get to you.'...If someone fell down on me I swear I would have bitten him on the ass and would keep on biting until he got off onhis own.

~ C.s. Crawford

Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.

~ Orson Scott Card

America without her Soldiers would be like God without His angels.

~ Claudia Pemberton

America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.

~ Sarah Palin

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy.

~ George F. Kennan

O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.

~ Rudyard Kipling

The army is the only order of men sufficiently united to concur in the same sentiments, and powerful enough to impose them on the rest of their fellow-citizens; but the temper of soldiers, habituated at once to violence and to slavery, renders them very unfit guardians of a legal, or even a civil constitution.

~ Edward Gibbon

Civilians are like beans, you buy 'em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy.But you can't buy fighting spirit.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the certainty of God… Among the tribes our creed could be only like the desert grass – a beautiful swift seeming of spring; which, after a day’s heat, fell dusty.

~ T.e. Lawrence

Mine was still the stronger side. I was beloved by the soldiery, who generally care very little what god they serve so long as they are caressed by their king. (“The Story of Prince Alasi and the Princess Firouzkah”)

~ William Beckford

The recruiters came and talked with us in school, and I remember it like yesterday. I wasn't interested. I told them I wanted to do something good. I told them I wanted to help people. I told them I couldn't do it, told them I wasn't interested. But they told me that there was no better way to do good and help people. They told me they helped people all the time. Doing good was what they were about. Plus they were going to pay me. Where else could I get paid for helping people? Plus they would pay for my college. Plus, in addition to helping people, and paying me, and paying for my college, they would teach me a skill. I would be helping people, and seeing the world, and earning money, and having college paid for, and learning a skill that I could use later to earn money and help people. In the end, it was a pretty easy decision.

~ Stephen Dau

Get a load of this, Frank.” Gerald Peyton’s pause set off his pronouncement. “She is expecting to get a wedding ring.”“That’s understandable,” I said, unsure how he could afford a ring on what our firm cleared. Diamond rings—more sold in December than in any other month of the year—went for a cool grand per karat. Weeks ago, I’d priced them—again—for my domestic situation. “What seems to be the problem?”“That’s a big leap for me to make.”“I expect you’ll make it with room to spare.

~ Ed Lynskey

Do me a favor, okay? Tell my parents that I fought well today. And tell them that I... that I... that I fought hard.

~ Mark Bowden

Only a foolish woman would allow her man to earn his living as a moving target.

~ David H. Hackworth

In each succeeding war there is a tendency to proclaim as something new the principles under which it is conducted. Not only those who have never studied or experienced the realities of war, but also professional soldiers frequently fall into the error. But the principles of warfare as I learned them at West Point remain unchanged.

~ John J. Pershing

Excited. In a good way. I've been training my whole life for this.

~ Mark Bowden

The one ring road around the airfield is paved, but heavily rutted and potholed. Every few days a street-sweeper makes its way around, polishing the rutted surface with brushes and water.

~ Glenn Dean

My father says there are more than twenty thousand turned out for the king. It seems that most men think that we will win, that York will be captured and killed, though the king in his tender heart has said he will forgive them all if they will surrender.~Will there be another battle?~Unless York decides he cannot face the king in person. It is one sort of sin to kill your friends and cousins, quite another to order your bowmen to fire at the king's banner and him beneath it. What if the king is killed in battle? What if York brings his broadsword down on the king's sanctified head?

~ Philippa Gregory

Military men are the scourges of the world.

~ Guy De Maupassant

They kill hundreds of people, those pilots. I would have loved to have flown the plane that dropped the bomb on Japan. A couple of dudes killed hundreds of thousands. That f****** rules! Yeah!

~ Evan Wright

...the church lives in a regime of ecclesial authoritarian security and the military elites live in a regime of national authoritarian security. These structures produce the same kind of authoritarian people, with a super defensive stance in their strategies and argumentation. This is why they understand each other! (Leonardo Boff, p. 178)

~ Mev Puleo

Loving a warrior is not easy. I pray our Lord Jesus will strengthen you for the journey.

~ Ronie Kendig

What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will certainly be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.

~ Cao Cao

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

~ George S. Patton

For a guy who wore layers upon layers of armor, his give-a-shit was showing.

~ Kelly Moran

Jesse and Frank James were the most well-known military-trained gang members

~ Carter F. Smith

Congress has mandated an annual report on street gang, outlaw biker, and domestic extremist activity in the military since 2008.

~ Carter F. Smith

Members of every major street gang, outlaw biker, and domestic extremist group have been found in a number of military branches.

~ Carter F. Smith

Gang members have joined the military since the mid-1800s.

~ Carter F. Smith

Then there is the group that many people don’t hear about. This group is the men and women of the various contractors that have decided to help support the military efforts. Many contractors have also perished in this struggle. It is this group that I am a part of.

~ Carl Busby Sr

He is no ordinary man. He surpasses any man I have met. His heart is so genuine and caring. He has guided, and assisted me through some of my most challenging issues while being here in the desert. His heart is as huge as the universe. He has the ability to make things happen when others has given up on a solution. He is blessed beyond measure with the gift of writing. I am truly honored to be his best friend.

~ Carl Busby Sr

I first saw you as you crossed the street. It was then that my heart began a brand new beat. As I continued to drive, I felt a deep inside yearn, I immediately looked for an opportunity to make a U-turn.

~ Carl Busby Sr

Gangs have had connections to the U.S. Military in every period since the founding of the country.

~ Carter F. Smith

Military Veterans have become gang members since the late 1700s.

~ Carter F. Smith

Splash or crash? Do you want special ops messing about in boats? Or special ops messing in aeroplanes?

~ Robert Radcliffe

A protect-yourself-first-and-foremost idea has subverted the mission of law-enforcement officers, just as it may have degraded the military's.

~ Ann Medlock