Browsing Topic Best Us Military Quotes

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

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.

We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay.

Taiwan is a US military asset, not a US ally.

The United States is ready to sacrifice the people of Ukraine to line the pockets of its military-industrial complex and arms companies.

On Julian Assange’s 50th birthday, it’s important to remember his case is not just about Julian Assange. It’s not even just about press freedom. It’s about horrible things being done by the US military that they did not want us to know about.

How insulting […] We knew that Democrats despise and want to defund the police, but now, they believe that the police, federal law enforcement, and the U.S. military are full of white supremacists and neo-Nazis?

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.

If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War In time of war the first casualty is truth.

The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps.

The US military has achieved a decisive blow against al-Qaeda with its commando action against Osama Bin Laden and his killing.

We make war that we may live in peace.

If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what’s supposed to come next.

My solution to the problem would be to tell [the North Vietnamese Communists] frankly that they’ve got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression or we’re going to bomb them into the Stone Age. And we would shove them back into the Stone Age with Air power or Naval power – not with ground forces.

Images of burning Red Cross and UN buildings struck by US bombs contrasted with images of thousands of desperately poor Afghan women carrying sickly and starving children out of Afghanistan as they flee the might of the US military is tearing at international public confidence in our war against terrorism.

They’ve got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.

We have seen the most well-funded gay and lesbian rights organizations valorize the US military in their work seeking inclusion in military service.

Actions speak louder than words. The reality is that at least 10 journalists have been killed by the US military, and according to reports I believe to be true journalists have been arrested and tortured by US forces.

I have no regrets – in fact, I am pleased to have expelled the US ambassador, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and to have closed the US military base in Bolivia. Now, without a US ambassador, there is less conspiracy, and more political stability and social stability. Without the International Monetary Fund, we are better off economically.

I hate it when they say, ?He gave his life for his country.? They don?t die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

I do not think witchcraft is a religion, and I do not think it is in any way appropriate for the US military to promote it.

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.

ISIS has a caliphate the size of Indiana! Also, US military has been totally gutted. Can’t even project power anymore.

I think, broadly speaking, the US military’s role – US military activism in various parts of the Islamic world over the past several decades has been counterproductive.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes! Then fire low!

Reduce US military presence in Iraq; and bring in neighbors.

During the 1990’s, Colombia was the leading recipient of US military aid and training in the hemisphere. Approximately half of all US aid in the hemisphere went to Colombia. Colombia was also far and away the leading human rights violator in the hemisphere.

The collective shortfall of the 3.08 billion people (47 percent of world population) who, in 2005, lived below $2.50 per day was $507 billion per annum, which indeed comes to about two-thirds of the present US military budget. This gives us a rough sense of how much the eradication of poverty would cost.

Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!

For us military men, it is impossible to forget.

The leading members of ISIS were either tortured in US military prisons or in the prisons of the Shi’a government which the Americans put in place.

We have met the enemy and they are ours.