Quotes About Military

they say that the government spends too much on "welfare" but too little on "assistance to the poor," and that it should "use military force" but not "go to war.

In royal service, soldiers and sailors were often expected to provide for themselves by preying on the civilian population: commandeering, raping, looting, taking prizes. When demobilized, they commonly continued the same practices, but without the same royal protection; demobilized ships became pirate vessels, demobilized troops bandits.

My style is definitely not ladylike - frills and bows kinda scare me - but I like the military look because I love that olive green khaki color.

Actually, I have a lot of hobbies, but I've kept up with model-building the longest. In particular, I love military models.

Conservatives truly love America and support the armed forces, while liberals are unpatriotic draft dodgers.

It's not getting any better, is it? I don't want my 19-year-old boy going into the army. I love these little kids. They understand how passionate I am.

España daba vueltas en círculos desde los días de los Reyes Católicos: guerras, dictaduras, reyes engendrando hijos idiotas con primas, tías y medio hermanas, la Iglesia, el perpetuo anclaje en el pasado, los militares, más guerras, más curas, más incultura...

Nadie sabe en dónde queda mi país, lo buscan entristeciéndose de miopía: no puede ser, tan pequeño ¿y es tanta su desgarradura, tanto su terremoto, tanta tortura militar, más trópico que el trópico?

Pinag-uusapan siya ng lahat dahil mayaman... Bumabalik ang mga sundalo mula sa mga kampanya, may sakit at sugatan, ngunit walang dumadalaw sa kanila!

MacArthur strode before his men, armed only with a riding crop, a cigarette holder clamped jauntily between his teeth, without the slightest suggestion in bearing or movement that he was under fire.

A great many of the Army officers were very fine in the way that they took care of their men. But there were certain very glaring instances of the opposite condition, and especially among these theorists, these men who were looking upon this whole thing as, perhaps, one looks upon a game of chess, or a game of football, and who were removed from actual contact with the troops.

Country boys turned out to be the fittest, producing 4.8 percent more able-bodied draftees per 100,000 than city boys. Whites were 1.2 percent more physically qualified than blacks and native-born Americans 3.5 percent more than those foreign-born.

artillery pieces were lined up, only more of them, 4,000 in all, a gun every six yards stretching for fifteen miles. The enemy would be pounded with shells, only more of them, 4.5 million this time.

The Special Forces motto was "De Oppresso Liber," not "Libre." Which meant "To liberate the oppressed.

There was a time, not so long ago, when private military contractors were outside the law, you know." "Above the law." "No. Outside the law. We weren't covered by military law, and we weren't covered by civilian law.

If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not butter

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.

Joe attended Xavier High School, a Catholic military academy, and later Fordham University, a Jesuit school.

Case studies of Cold War-era conflicts suggest two ironclad, unwritten rules: first, no nuclear power may use military force against another nuclear power; and, second, a nuclear power, using military force against a non-nuclear nation, may not use nuclear weapons. Moreover, possessing nuclear weapons did not necessarily deter a non-nuclear nation from waging war with a client state of a nuclear power, as the United States found out in the Korean and Vietnam Wars.

the two military aides with the nuclear codes—ours was the "the football," and because we didn't know what the Russians called theirs, we dubbed it "the soccer ball"—and

Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using conventional weapons.

Alla scuola dei cadetti non si è mai imparato nulla su come un ufficiale debba comportarsi in un caso simile

In no time, the platoon were on their feet in front of him, formed up into two ranks, and it struck him suddenly, and probably for the first time in his military career, that these men with their drilled precision were dead parts of dead machines that didn't produce anything.

Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates... Instead, they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service, should learn to think and act as a mass.