Quotes About Military

We started at once to dig our trenches, half of my platoon stepping forward abreast, the men being placed an arm's length apart. After laying their rifles down, barrels pointing to the enemy, a line was drawn behind the row of rifles and parallel to it.

When I joined the Army in the late '70s, there was a real threat from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, so all of the '80s, I was engaged in what could be classed as conventional operations - that involved digging lots of trenches in Germany.

All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death.

If you move between battalions, you are still within the same tribe.

A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.

It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.

Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff. During a briefing military stuff in which officials began telling him about missile silos.

The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels.

Take me to the Brig. I want to see the "real Marines".

Would you respect a God you could comprehend? And yet very often thatÂ's what we want - a God who reflects our culture, our biases, our economic, political, and military systems.

Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be considered unpatriotic.

The best junior officers with at least three years' service could apply for a "high potentials" course which would lead to entry into the General Staff.

I didn't join the army to shoot Americans. If I wanted to shoot Americans I'd have joined the police.

Can you believe that? Americans spitting on the men who have sworn to defend them, on the men who've sworn to obey the orders of the elected, civilian government.

Al incorporarse a la legión, el legionario quedaba exento de pagar impuestos y dejaba de estar sometido a la ley civil. Una vez entraba a formar parte del ejército, su vida estaba gobernada por la ley militar, que, en muchos aspectos, era más severa que el código

The long existence of the Roman Empire had everything to do with the legions. While the legions were strong, Rome was strong. Conversely, the disintegration of the Late Empire had everything to do with the disintegration of the legions as effective fighting forces.

La larga existencia del Imperio romano está directamente relacionada con el estado de las legiones. Mientras las legiones fueron fuertes, Roma fue fuerte.

Speirs was an officer with a reputation. Slim, fairly tall, dark hair, stern, ruggedly handsome, he cultivated the look of a leader, and acted it.

They were white, because the U.S. Army in World War II was segregated. With three exceptions, they were unmarried. Most had been hunters and athletes in high school.

This argument—"We are all of us carried along by a fiery zeal to recover our liberty; our arms cannot be wrested from our hands,"97—was a politico-military ideal but an inaccurate prediction, for both Cicero and the Roman republic, in part due to the inferiority of their arms, were killed within the year by Caesar's standing army.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army," Jefferson wrote in 1803. "To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

Consistent with the meaning of "bear arms" as carrying weapons on the person, Webster defined "pistol" as "a small fire-arm, or the smallest fire-arm used . . . . Small pistols are carried in the pocket."18 An arms historian notes: "Among eighteenth-century civilians who traveled or lived in large cities, pistols were common weapons. Usually they were made to fit into pockets, and many of these small arms were also carried by military officers.

Dissenting, Justice Stevens argued that the Second Amendment extended only to the individual "right to use weapons for certain military purposes"8—a curious position, given that militia service is a compulsory duty, and no person has a "right" to bear or use arms as he chooses in a militia or even to be a member thereof. It is noteworthy that no Justice supported the now-discredited "collective rights" theory.

Arms are the profession of exiles. (311)