Quotes About Military

General, get up dress quick you are a prisoner!

Now this brings me to my main topic - our military strength - more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining the economic health that supports our security.

I would close every recruiting station, disband the Army, and disarm the Air Force. I would abolish the whole dreadful equipment of war, and say to the world; 'Do your worst!'

In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.

Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.

A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the heads of men.

It is with artillery that war is made.

We'll blast them back into the stone ages!

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

War what is it good for? It's good for business.

The soldiers currently manning our sophisticated weaponry have room temperature IQ's.

The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.

I think the President ought to bring everybody that's in American uniform back because we're headed for war.

Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient.

No president can easily commit our sons and daughters to war.

Thus far the chief purpose of our military establishment has been to win wars. From now on its chief purpose must be to avert them. It can have almost no other useful purpose.

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war, it's to be prepared for peace.

The 'defense' budget is three quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year well over 25%. I guarantee you: when war becomes that profitable, we're going to see more of it.

If we were building our navy, rather than reducing our navy to pre-World War I levels, China would not be thinking about increasing its navy to take over the South China Sea.

The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived.

Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

We've been talking about this for a good while, the immorality of drones, dropping bombs on innocent people. It's been over 200 children so far. These are war crimes.

They assembled from all sides, one after another, with arms and horses and all the panoply of war.