Quotes About Military

As stated above, America will eventually have to abandon its Asian bases. Its forward deployment policy will be at an end.

The Iraqi and Afghan wars have not 'ended.' Only America's involvement has 'ended.' … When a country leaves a war before achieving victory it is not called leaving. It is called defeat. … When the decent leave, the indecent win.

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

I am, madam, Jonathan Randall, Esquire, Captain of His Majesty's Eighth Dragoons. At your service, madam.

The Continental army got more generals than they got private soldiers, these days. An officer lives through more 'n two battles, they make him some kind of general on the spot. Now, gettin' any pay for it, that's a different kettle of fish.

motioned to the sergeant-major to turn the prisoner around to show his back.

English dragoons

She gave him a long, level look. "And how does thee know that the Lord has not spoken to me, as well?" His eyes twinkled behind his spectacles. "I am happy for thee. What did He say?" "He said, 'Keep thy fat-headed brother from committing suicide, for I will require his blood at thy hand,' " she snapped, slapping his hand away from the bridle. "If we are going to join the army, Denny, let us go and

The English officer was coming back toward the cabin, passing within a few feet of me. I glanced up, and my hands froze. He was tall, slender but broad-shouldered, and I would have known that long stride, that unself-conscious grace, and that arrogant tilt of the head anywhere. He paused, frowning, and turned his head to survey the littered field. His nose was straight as a knife blade, just that tiny bit too long.

I ate a lot because there was a lot to eat at the military.

I did not even know what athletics was; the Army taught me everything.

I grew up in a military family, so I liked being in an atmosphere where there was almost that feeling.

The military does very well taking average people and making them very good leaders.

I did not want to avoid service. I did realize reservists could be called up, and that it was something that I wanted to do.

In the Army, I was very good at avoiding my job!

Donald Trump obviously knows nothing about what it's like to put your life on the line for your country. He's never risked his life for anything.

I will never support a draft.

I was going to get drafted, but I didn't really want to go into the Army.

I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn't think they'd come home alive. I didn't think I would either, so I was happy when I did.

We have asked a lot of our military families and I believe they deserve the very best efforts of each of us to show them how much we appreciate their service to our country.

The only way we're going to keep America safe is to have an elite military, all right.

I wanted to be an aerospace engineer because I really like space. But I didn't go to the army.

Destroyers were the first to herald our entrance into the war.

Stories of military exploits were repeated almost before boys left their mother's breast. Does a little booby cry for any ache? The mother scolds him in this fashion: "What a coward to cry for a trifling pain! What will you do when your arm is cut off in battle? What when you are called upon to commit hara-kiri?