Quotes About Military

It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.

The Germans, a race eager for war.

I am not against all wars-just whichever is current.

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command.

You know that when ex-military personnel start assassinating their own government's agents that something funky is going on.

I lived in the world of poetry and ideas. I thought life was all about art and philosophy. In the military, I suddenly found out about the real world.

My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma

National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.

They love us everywhere we go. So when in doubt, send the Marines.

If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.

Tikka Khan won't try to stick his nose in politics.

Military missions cannot be a normal tool of politics, but instead must remain the great exception.

While vast sums of money are being siphoned off into hidden [military] coffers, Americas schools, hospitals and public services are facing cutbacks and closures.

We spent time on Burma and the need for the military regime there to understand that they shouldn't fear the voices of people. And yet they do.

There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action.

Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset - its flexibility.

However formidable a military power you may be, you cannot impose upon a people anything against their will.

Above all, I shall see to it that the enemy will not be able to drop any bombs.

Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.

even in the Loyalist press inside British-occupied New York City by February 1779. The Royal Gazette, praising Benedict Arnold for being "more distinguished for valor and perseverance" than any other American, including Washington, wondered why the enemy was wasting his "military talents" and had permitted him "thus to fall into the unmerciful fangs of the executive council of Pennsylvania."1

One glaring problem was that the Continental Army, with few experienced officers, had to rely on foreign mercenaries. European officers from twenty countries