Quotes About Military

It's a lot easier to stay idealistic if you don't sign two to five next-of-kin letters every day.

Our country desperately needs a president with a depth of global experience and an understanding of all the elements of our nation's power, from our economy and our diplomacy to the power of our ideals and our military, including its limitations.

I don't live under the illusion we don't need a military to protect this country.

I know 'Napalm' seems like a military-themed album, but what it is, is just the backdrop and the imagery that we used.

I've spent most of my life like most Americans - without any immediate connection to active duty military.

Aristotle might not recognize it, or others who are at the root of democracy. What type of democracy do you impose with marines and bombs?

I developed the armed forces, especially in a way that improved living and working conditions. My record is there.

Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.

The modern military justice system is by design a body incapable of blind justice.

In many ways, the North won the Civil War militarily and then lost the peace. You know, a group of writers, included many Confederate generals, began a school of thought called the Lost Cause in which they began to romanticize the Confederacy.

I'm a believer in the Afghan people, so I support an increase in forces there.

The challenges facing our Armed Forces are increasingly complex.

Indeed, it is quite sad to see the United States becoming the main exporter of arms. It is quite sad to look at the U.S. government subsidizing arms exports.

Our military might is the guarantor of Russia's security and independence.

It is not whether an independent Scotland could go it alone and develop its own defence forces - of course it could - but what sort of forces would they be?

India is the second biggest defence procurer in the world after the U.S.

Era tremendamente eccitante, e pregnante, marciare al basso in quella sospensione di partigianesimo. Johnny si sentiva come può sentirsi un prete cattolico in borghese od un militare in borghese: le armi razionalmente celate sotto il vestito, il segno era sempre su di lui: partigiano in aeternum

This is not a military war in the old sense. It is not even a political war. What we're facing here is a social war, a class war. As long as we don't destroy the mandarin class, abolish excessive tenancy rates and do fail to give every farmer his own plot of land, this country'll go Communist as soon as we turn our backs.

We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing various symptoms and they're still in the active duty, they're less likely to come forward because that could result in their medical discharge.

Instead of spending more money on the military than the next ten nations combined, we should lead the world in diplomacy and international collaboration, especially when it comes to preventing wars and combating climate change.

In Socrates' lifetime more than 800 triremes were launched from Athenian-controlled harbours: the largest manned navy the world had ever known.

Had the Army been helpful, maybe the murderer wouldn't be wherever he was taken.

We kept our promise to remove all American troops from Iraq -- Iraqi cities. We kept our promise to end our combat mission last August and to reduce our forces in Iraq to 50,000. At the end of this month, we will keep our promise to remove our remaining troops from Iraq, which, when we came to office, numbered 140,000 American forces. Where I come from, where the President comes from, a promise made is a promise kept. And we are keeping our promise.

Barack Obama has a vision of American greatness based not just on our unmatched military might, but on our economic, intellectual, and moral strengths. They were once the envy of the world. They can be again