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~ The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military ~

William Orville Douglas

~ A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. ~

Martin Luther King Jr

~ If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government --and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws ~

Edward Abbey

~ For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank. ~

Winston Churchill

~ Art among a religious race produces relics; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade. ~

Henry Fuseli

~ Military glory --the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood. ~

Abraham Lincoln

~ Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. ~

Groucho Marx

~ Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars. ~

General George Catlett Marshall

~ Military glory - that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood ~

Abraham Lincoln

~ A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. ~

Martin Luther King Jr

~ Military men are the scourges of the world ~

Guy de Maupassant

~ War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. ~

Georges Clemenceau

~ A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective. ~

Sun Tzu

~ The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it. ~

Louis Simpson

~ A lot of wonderful people love their country and hate the military. ~

Bill Clinton

~ My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness ~

Lord Mountbatten

~ Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks. ~

Tony Snow

~ 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

~ If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by military force. ~

Dick Cheney

~ Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti. ~

Thor Heyerdahl

~ We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country. ~

Ronald Reagan

~ But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility. ~

Erwin Rommel

~ Courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility. ~

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

~ If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe. ~

Lord Salisbury

~ We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it. ~

Jerry Pournelle

~ The Almighty has fixed the distinction of the races; the Almighty has made the black man inferior, and sir, by no legislation, by no partisan success, by no revolution, by no military power, can you wipe out this distinction. ~

Fernando Wood

~ As a former veteran, I understand the needs of veterans, and have been clear - we will work together, stand together with the Administration, but we will also question their policies when they shortchange veterans and military retirees. ~

Solomon Ortiz

~ Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. ~

Alphonse Allais

~ If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus be. ~

Joseph Goebbels

~ 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 Dunn

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