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.

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

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

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

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

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

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

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.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The best is the enemy of the good.

There is no military solution to the war in Iraq. Our troops can help suppress the violence, but they cannot solve its root causes. And all the troops in the world won’t be able to force Shia, Sunni, and Kurd to sit down at a table, resolve their differences, and forge a lasting peace. In fact, adding more troops will only push this political settlement further and further into the future, as it tells the Iraqis that no matter how much of a mess they make, the American military will always be there to clean it up.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

A permanent peace cannot be prepared by threats but only by the honest attempt to create a mutual trust. However strong national armaments may be, they do not create military security for any nation nor do they guarantee the maintenance of peace.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man’s history is the beating of war drums.

Get the hell out of my way!