Quotes About Military

Thus, though I have heard of successful military operations that were clumsy but swift, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.

Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.

The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor.

In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things.

On this question of war, three things are to be considered. First, the right of declaring it: secondly, the expense of supporting it: thirdly, the mode of conducting it after it is declared.

The military played polo. Polo, really, started as a game to train for war.

One bad general is worth two good ones.

Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.

I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.

To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous.

When someone makes a move Of which we don't approve, Who is it that always intervenes? U.N. and O.A.S., They have their place, I guess, But first send the Marines!

Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.

When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and reward.

We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of version of the one that happened previously.

Go, bid the soldiers shoot.

When the war broke out I decided I would be very patriotic. Standing my full height. I presented myself to the Wacs and the to the Waves. And I was rejected - I was an inch too tall.

Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything and few know very much.

With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist.

This war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything.

I have destroyed the enemy merely by marches.

Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.

I don't believe that being against the war can be equated with being non-supportive of our troops.

The terror of the Roman arms added weight and dignity to the moderation of the emperors. They preserved the peace by a constant preparation for war.

The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.