Famous Quotes & Sayings

In war, discipline is superior to strength; but if that discipline is neglected there is no longer any difference between the soldier and the peasant.

Queen Elizabeth II

Experience shows that great enterprises seldom end with a tidy and satisfactory flourish. Together, we are doing our best to re-establish peace and civil order in the Gulf region, and to help those members of civil and ethnic minorities who continue to suffer through no fault of their own. If we succeed, our military success will have achieved its true objective.

Grantland Rice

Fate only picks on the cowards and quitters, So give 'em both barrels - and aim for the eyes.

Greg Bear

For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs - perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without bloodshed; as I say, a militarism without the military virtues.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

John Dryden

Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?

John M. McHugh

One only has to look at the performance of the economy to understand how it shapes the perspective of America's youth about military service.

John M. McHugh

Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less personal.

John Lewis

The events in Prague, together with the Berlin blockade, convinced the European recipients of American economic assistance that they needed military protection as well: that led them to request the creation of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which committed the United States for the first time ever to the peacetime defense of Western Europe.

John Leguizamo

My parents were incredibly strict, almost military style.

Jimmy Doolittle

Adolf Galland said that the day we took our fighters off the bombers and put them against the German fighters, that is, went from defensive to offsensive, Germany lost the air war. I made that decision and it was my most important decision during World War II. As you can imagine, the bomber crews were upset. The fighter pilots were ecstatic.

Katherine Dunn

And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet.

Katherine Anne Porter

Untrained minds have always been a nuisance to the military police of orthodoxy. God-intoxicated mystics and untidy saints with only a white blaze of divine love where their minds should have been, are perpetually creating almost as much disorder within the law as outside it.

Karen Armstrong

Alexander's achievement was not the conquest of India, but the feat of actually getting there and his two years in India were more of a geographical expedition than a military campaign. .... a Greek army had reached what they regarded as the end of the earth. They had pitted themselves against the ultimate as bravely as the yogins had struggled to break through the limits of the human psyche. Where mystics had conquered interior space, Alexander explored the farthest reaches of the physical world. .... like many of the axial sages, he was constantly 'straining after more'.

John Keegan

Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues.

Justin Cronin

The military was all about hierarchies, who urinated highest on the hydrant

Juan Cole

To the extent that the (ISIS's) advance is a series of urban revolts against the government of PM Nouri al-Maliki, the US would end up bombing ordinary city folk. For the US to be bombing Sunni towns all these years later on behalf of Mr. al-Maliki would be to invite terrorism against the US.

Juan Manuel Santos

I have the complete support of the military. I personally served in the navy.

K. Eric Drexler

...Local prohibitions cannot block advances in military and commercial technology... Democratic movements for local restraint can only restrain the world's democracies, not the world as a whole.

Julius Caesar

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

Joyce Grenfell

Stately as a galleon, I sail across the floor,Doing the military two-step, as in the days of yore.

Otto Schily

The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force.

Otto Schily

We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers.

Otto von Bismarck

Politics is not an exact science.

Otto von Bismarck

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

Otto von Bismarck

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

Otto von Bismarck

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

Otto von Bismarck

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

Otto von Bismarck

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

Kamisese Mara

Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.

Kandyse McClure

I have to say, as a young woman of color, and this may sound controversial, in sci-fi, anything is possible. In sci-fi I can belong to the military. In sci-fi I can have an interracial love affair; I can be a revolutionary.