Military Quotes

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

General George S. Patton

Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.

General George Catlett Marshall

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

General MacArthur

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Groucho Marx

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

Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen

William Henry

Military men are the scourges of the world

Guy de Maupassant

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

Josephus Daniels

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.

Charles Edward Montague

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

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

Bill Clinton

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

Mao Zedong

So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence.

Sun Tzu

The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits

Henry Louis Mencken

Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.

Will Rogers

The side with the simplest uniforms wins.

Maj Mark Cancian

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology

Rebecca West

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

Louis Simpson

To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.

Barbara Levy Boxer

Our Party supports and will continue to support peoples fighting for their freedom. In so doing, the Soviet Union does not look for advantages, does not hunt for concessions, does not seek political domination and is not after military bases. We act as we are bid by our revolutionary conscience, our communist convictions.

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev

And the poor in their fireless lodgings, dropping the sheets Of the evening paper: "Our day is our loss, O show us History the operator, the Organiser, Time the refreshing river." And the nations combine each cry, invoking the life That shapes the individual belly and orders The private nocturnal terror: "Did you not found the city state of the sponge, "Raise the vast military empires of the shark And the tiger, establish the robin's plucky canton? Intervene. Descend as a dove or A furious papa or a mild engineer, but descend."

Wystan Hugh Auden

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