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Quotes About Military

Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!
~ Benito Mussolini
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
~ H. G. Wells
Military men are the scourges of the world.
~ Guy de Maupassant, Sur l'eau
Police do not belong in war zones.
~ Daniel Keys Moran
The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ.
~ B. H. Liddell Hart
The EU will not stop wars: it wants an army to fight them.
~ John Redwood
The basic principle that we must follow in directing the armies of the Republic is this: that they must feed themselves on war at the expense of the enemy territory.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.
~ Barry Goldwater
An army which cannot be regularly recruited is a doomed army.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
War is good business Invest your son
~ Allen Ginsberg
As one Israeli said, "It's a big mistake for Israel to say it 'won' the war, when there was no war. There were no battles...no military enemy in the field."
~ Norman Finkelstein
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
~ Rebecca West
He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
A nation that sends its women to fight its wars is not worth defending.
~ Pat Buchanan
Only the United States of America deemed ice cream "an essential item for troop morale." And so it alone continued producing, ordering ice cream freezers on submarines, ice cream freezers on tankers, ice cream freezers on cargo ships. Over the course of the war, the United States military became the largest ice cream manufacturer in history.
~ Susan Jane Gilman
air force bases, where libraries are revered.
~ Susan Orlean
except for military lawyers and legal aid/public defenders, who reported the highest job satisfaction.106
~ Susan Swaim Daicoff
This King of the World didn't reign alone. His wife, Mumtaz Mahal...traveled with him everywhere, helped him govern his kingdom, and worked with him to plan out his military campaigns. She kept his seal...and every decree that he made went to her to be approved.
~ Susan Wise Bauer
Why are Marines like bananas?" Bobby asked. "Because they're both yellow and die in big bunches
~ Suzanne Brockmann
You brought condoms on a training operation?" Harvard laughed as he opened one of the Velcro pockets of his vest. "Yeah. You did, too. You should have three or four in your combat vest. To put over our rifle barrels in case of heavy rain, remember?
~ Suzanne Brockmann
God is great and God is good," Lisa says. "But where are the Apache attack helicopters when you need them?
~ Suzanne Finnamore
Too many Europeans interpreted military superiority as intellectual and even biological superiority.
~ Sven Lindqvist
My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France.
~ Lillie Langtry
I was, somewhere in the neighborhood of about 300 jumps.
~ Hugh Shelton