Quotes About Military

No one can claim to be called Christian who gives money for the building of warships and arsenals.

I don't come from a lot of money and wasn't going to get an academic scholarship, so the only way to afford an education was to allow the military to supplement it.

All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

American Sniper focuses on a soldier with 160 kills, or as Harvey Weinstein calls it, a slow morning.

My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.

My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her.

If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.

Diplomacy without military might is like music without instruments.

pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.

The nature of encounter operations required of the commanders limitless initiative and constant readiness to take the responsibility for military actions.

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.

Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.

When I grew up, I only had two dreams. One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.

Since when does a militarily occupied people have the responsibility for a peace movement?

The world is over-armed and peace is under-funded.

Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected.

So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible.

The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace. The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military point of view, in the defeat of Japan.

The ideal weapons system is built in 435 congressional districts and it doesn't matter whether it works or not.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation.

Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.

Aviation is going to control the world economically and militarily whether we like it or not. Airpower is not merely military aviation, it is also civilian aviation and airpower is peace power.