Best Military Quotes

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

There is nothing moderate about an ideology of endless mass military slaughter abroad and ever-tightening authoritarianism and economic exploitation at home.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence-death-is hidden from public view.

Urge all of your men to pray, not alone in church, but everywhere. Pray when driving. Pray when fighting. Pray alone. Pray with others. Pray by night and pray by day. Pray for the cessation of immoderate rains, for good weather for Battle.Pray for the defeat of our wicked enemy whose banner is injustice and whose good is oppression. Pray for victory. Pray for our Army, and Pray for Peace. We must march together, all out for God.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

If you look at how the federal government spends our money, it’s an insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army.

No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.

The truth is, that the military people are so important to our country.

The best is the enemy of the good.

God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

We are dealing with veterans, not procedures; with their problems, not ours.

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

If, however, there is to be a war of nerves let us make sure our nerves are strong and are fortified by the deepest convictions of our hearts.

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion’s roar.

Iran is a powerful country. Iran is a big country with a large population, natural resources, human resources. But we are a country that is content with its size, content with its geography. We have not engaged in any military adventures in the past 250 years. We don’t see any of this as Iran trying to dominate this region. We see some people panicking in our region and we believe there is no need to panic. We are prepared to work with all our neighbors to ensure the security and prosperity of our region.