Browsing Topic Best Military Man Quotes

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.

There has been a constant struggle on the part of the military element to keep the end- fighting, or readiness to fight-superior to mere administrative considerations. The military man, having to do the fighting, considers that the chief necessity; the administrator equally naturally tends to think the smooth running of the machine the most admirable quality.

Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

The inaugural parade is like an extension of the president’s personality, .. Dwight Eisenhower, for example. A conservative guy. A military man. Short and simple was what his inauguration parade was all about.

Today, our brave military men and women, just as those who have gone before them, stand on alert, securing freedom at home and guarding the innocent abroad.

I don’t know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.

Military men are the scourges of the world.

My grandfather had come over as a member of the czarist army, to make an arms deal with the British government. Being a blinkered military man, he was unaware that the Russian Revolution was about to take place.

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men

I’m not a military man. I wish I were, then maybe I could give some advice.

Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.

When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

…you have been fraternizing with warewolves overmuch! Military men can be terribly bad for one’s verbal concatenation!

Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.

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

I have in mind repeated statements by Japanese military men containing threats against other states.

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

A military man can scarcely pride himself on having ‘smitten a sleeping enemy’; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. I would rather you made your appraisal after seeing what the enemy does, since it is certain that, angered and outraged, he will soon launch a determined counterattack.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don’t want to do, and like it.

A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.

All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happens to them, their families will be well taken care of. That’s the bond we have with our military men and women and their families.

Before I became President, in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, there had been fairly dramatic, and I think excessive, reductions in the capability of our military forces, and as a former military man myself – I was a professional naval officer, a submarine officer – I thought it was better, on a step-by-step, very carefully planned way, to increase the technical, or technological, capability of our weapons systems.

I didn’t choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

For us military men, it is impossible to forget.