Quotes About Military

We have to get a lot tougher if we're going to win this war [with ISIS]. If we're not going to be tougher, we're never going to win this war. This is only going to get worse.

We are the only nation in the world that waits till we get into a war before we start getting ready for it.

The allure of military life and its heroic promise seem indestructible, but nothing threatens the romance of war more effectively than war itself.

I think the worst thing in the world is to have the courts decide who to target in the war on terrorism. And courts are not military commanders.

Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand.

I have served in the Congress during two wars and I have seen the impacts on our military, on their families and on our national deficit.

Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity.

I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation building.

My fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.

By the 20th century, war ceased to be an encounter between two armies. It became an encounter between two societies, because a factory worker producing a gun or a bomb is as deadly as a pilot.

While other [military] alliances have been formed to win wars, our fundamental purpose is to prevent war while preserving and extending the frontiers of freedom.

And we will win the war, and there will be costs. But the military folks understand that, and so do I, and so does the Secretary of Defense.

The power of our example is more important than the strength of our military.

In a time when our nation is engaged in multiple, long-term wars, it's critical that "the military" not become an abstraction to the vast majority of Americans who are not participants.

To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it.

Do wars support the military-industrial complex and therefore support the people?

War is progressive because all instruments of war are progressive.

I actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia.

How can you send somebody else's kid to war if you won't send your own?

National Defense is not a threat to peace; it is the guarantee of peace with freedom.

Democrats have chosen not to defend the Marine Corps, but to pander to anti-war protesters and Berkeley officials that are actively trying to impede military recruitment.

We're facing a very different sort of threat now, a more amorphous threat, al Qaeda, terrorism, and so on. And so the military has abandoned the two-war strategy.

If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.

Reducing military presence has never in history won a war.