Browsing Topic 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.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

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

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 devastation in Gaza is unconscionable. We must urge an immediate ceasefire. The killing of Palestinians and Israelis must end. We must also take a hard look at nearly $4 billion a year in military aid to Israel. It is illegal for U.S. aid to support human rights violations.

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.

Imperial powers do not forgive those who expose their weaknesses or make public the sordid and immoral inner workings of empire. Empires are fragile constructions. Their power is as much one of perception as of military strength. The virtues they claim to uphold and defend, usually in the name of their superior civilization, are a mask for pillage, the exploitation of cheap labor, indiscriminate violence and state terror.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

One minute can decide the outcome of the battle, one hour – the outcome of the campaign, and one day – the fate of the country.

Experience shows that great enterprises seldom end with a tidy and satisfactory flourish. Together, we are doing our best to re-establish peace and civil order in the Gulf region, and to help those members of civil and ethnic minorities who continue to suffer through no fault of their own. If we succeed, our military success will have achieved its true objective.

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