Quotes About Military

The Baltic countries are sovereign nations. They have the right to decide which military and political bloc they want to be a part of.

I was conscripted to military service, and my gut feeling was to refuse to serve. I did not want to kill other people. This seemed to me wrong, if not in principle, so at least in practice.

One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.

There's a rule saying I have to ground anyone who's crazy ... There's a catch. Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.

Curtis Le May wants to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong. You know how he likes to go around bombing.

China is working on a similar system for its future carriers. Donald Trump may want to go back to 1920s-level technology, but the rest of the world isn't.

We're really talking about the Army and Marine Corps here for almost all these ground combat jobs. They want to move in a careful, deliberate manner.

Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.

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.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.

It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it will not be fought on U.S. soil.

Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'... Rule 2 is: Do not go fighting with your land armies in China.

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners.

My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity to be avoided if compatible with national honor.

We must take the profit out of war.

In order to assure an adequate national defense, it is necessary - and sufficient - to be in a position in case of war to conquer the command of the air.

There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished.

Artillery is the god of war.

They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...

Killing is the payoff of war.