Quotes About Military

One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that improvisation is such a big part of it, so it feels like it should be less soldiers in an army and more like free spirits melding. And yet, big band jazz has a real military side to it.

By the end of 2001, between 100,000 to 150,000 Algerians had died in the civil war, as well as 120 foreigners. The cost to the economy ran into billions of dollars. And all this in spite of a tough, 120,000-strong army backed by 80,000 police.

In spite of the fact of my dad telling me that if I did well, I could go to the military, I said, 'No, I want to go to college.'

As a wife, you see and hear things. Imran always spoke about his links with the military.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

President Obama is sending troops back to Iraq. He said, 'Don't worry, we should not be there any longer than a Kardashian marriage.'

I've had marriage proposals, invitations to military balls and even a few prom offers from 18-year-old boys.

I am a military police officer and I have served on two deployments my first was to Iraq, in a medical unit, and my second deployment was to Kuwait, as a military police platoon leader.

Why in hell can't the Army do it if the Marines can. They are the same kind of men; why can't they be like Marines.

I still need Marines who can shoot and salute. But I need Marines who can fix jet engines and man sophisticated radar sets, as well.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.

The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs.

It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.

The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.

I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

My men have sometimes failed to take a position, but to defend one, never!

Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military.

There is a certain kind of small town that grows like a boil on the ass of every Army base in the world.

By outward appearances, Cantabrigia Five was a video journalist. But it made sense that, in a world where no police or military action could be judged successful unless it looked good to ordinary persons watching it on video screens, she was also a general.

Sergeant Bobby Shaftoe, USMC, pours some beans into the grinder and starts to belabor the crank. A black flurry begins to accumulate in the coffeepot below. He has learned to make this stuff the Swedish way, using an egg to settle the grounds.