Quotes about military
military support republican
Democrats and Republicans alike support our military personnel. John Spratt
military real patriotic
Once over there [Balkans], I felt extremely patriotic. Here are these people, from 18-year-olds to military veterans, enduring real duress for the cause of peace. I don't ever want to play for a regular audience again, only military folks who are starving for music. Sheryl Crow
military silent-films long
The military has a very long relationship with Hollywood that dates back to the silent film era. Nick Turse
military latin qatar
Whether I'm trying to figure out what the U.S. military is doing in Latin America or Africa, Afghanistan or Qatar, the response is remarkably uniform - obstruction and obfuscation, hurdles and hindrances. In short, the good old-fashioned military runaround. Nick Turse
military taken school
A nation that honors God will always be honored by God. I've seen nations that have dishonored God: God has been taken out of schools, the government, the military; and when you take Him out of a nation, how can you expect God to protect this nation? Nick Vujicic
military bombs pearls
Of course, individuals are responsible for individual actions - the pilots who flew over Pearl Harbor and dropped bombs on those ships did a terrible thing as part of an attack on a military base. Nicholson Baker
military my-best-friend construction
I grew up middle class, my best friends to this day are construction workers or military or whatever it is. Miles Teller
military army weakness
Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies. John R. Allen
military night russia
You know, I used to live in Russia where you had officers in the military opening up the warehouses at night and taking weapons out and putting them into a truck and selling them to foreign powers. That type of stuff doesn't happen in the United States. We still have a very functioning and relatively civil society. Matt Taibbi
military thinking enemy
he'd know that I think that . . . well, that bending an enemy's will through military force is the absolute last way a nation ought to go about solving their problems. Meg Cabot
military mean violence
The decisive means for politics is violence. Max Weber
military effort style
I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds. Max Cannon
military iraq leader
Look what happened with regard to our invasion into Afghanistan, how we apparently intentionally let bin Laden get away. That was done by the previous administration because they knew very well that if they would capture al Qaeda, there would be no justification for an invasion in Iraq. There's no question that the leader of the military operations of the U.S. called back our military, called them back from going after the head of al Qaeda. Maurice Hinchey
military design democracy
In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell. Plato
military fighting long
At an early age Jesse often said he wanted to be a soldier, and before long he was one. He was there with his military brotherhood, fighting terrorism there so we wouldn't have to fight it here.
military understanding vision
This Administration has led us into an area without vision. Bush has no clear understanding of what is being asked of the citizens, and the military is under his direction. Martin Sheen
military traitor accused
I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth. Martin Sheen
military two trying
I just felt from personal observation that there is nothing more dislocated or alienated than a lifelong military person trying to cope in civilian life. It's like two completely separate planets. Lee Child
military war deployment
European peace movement felt that the deployment of these missiles on European soil, on German soil would be a very great danger towards the Soviet Union in that those missiles could reach the Soviet Union, make it vulnerable within five to six minutes, that it could surgical strikes, strikes into the military infrastructure and that a strike into the military infrastructure could cause in fact World War III, an atomic world war and that this could also be used for first strike, for surgical search, first strike into the Soviet Union. Petra Kelly
military believe mass-destruction
To the contrary, I believe the U.S. military has already done all that has been asked of them. Saddam Hussein is on trial. The threat from alleged weapons of mass destruction programs in Iraq has been neutralized. Peter DeFazio
military iraq renounce
The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq. Peter DeFazio
military organization people
The most important decisions in organizations are people decisions, and yet only the military, and only recently, has begun to ask, "If we assign this general to lead this base, what do we expect him to accomplish?" Peter Drucker
military fighting organization
You cannot prevent a major catastrophe, but you can build an organization that is battle-ready, where people trust one another. In military training, the first rule is to instill soldiers with trust in their officers - because without trust, they won't fight. Peter Drucker
military defense purpose
We have tried to substitute mass for purpose. We have tried to regain military potency of defense by making it gigantic, unwieldy, complex. It never works. Peter Drucker
military islamic six-months
Now, six months after he sent the military back into combat to take on the terror group calling itself the Islamic State, Mr. Obama has acquiesced and sent a measure to Congress asking it to formally authorize what he has been doing all along. And now that they have gotten what they asked for, few in Congress seem all that enthusiastic about the prospect. Peter Baker
military years boots
Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military. Paulo Coelho
military gun men
The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability in a man as they do in a telephone or a machine gun, and they train their soldiers to act as a unit, not as individuals. Marlon Brando
military iraq speech
We civilians defend our own right to free speech. The military in Iraq does not defend our right to free speech. Medea Benjamin
military civil-war gestures
Stillertook part in the Spanish Civil WarIt is not clear what impelled him to this military gesture. Probably many factors were combined--a rather romantic Communism, such as was common among bourgeois intellectuals at that time. Max Frisch
military war giving
It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give any meaning to the efforts at military security.
military thinking people
All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should remember it. Michael Herr
military white people
Inside the White House there were always extreme amounts of doubt about whether they should be escalating in Afghanistan. In fact, most of the president's advisers said, "This is probably not going to work." A lot of people in the military said, "This is probably not going to work." Michael Hastings
military united-states reason
Clearly the American military has been a force for good for the United States. There's a reason we have a standing military. But there's something to be said for having a much smaller military because then we wouldn't be tempted to get involved in things we shouldn't be getting involved in. Michael Hastings