Quotes About Military

IF YOU ABOLISH THE DRAFT, said Owen Meany, MOST AMERICANS WILL SIMPLY STOP CARING WHAT WE'RE DOING IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD

Technical Sergeant Garp, the late gunner whose familiarity with violent death cannot be exaggerated, served with the Eighth Air Force – the air force that bombed the Continent from England.

Tarkin thought of himself as the product of a military upbringing, in which discipline, respect, and obedience were held in the highest regard.

promoted to admiral after a daring escape from the Citadel prison;

The concert of the guns was ready to resume.

More than once, during the Sicilian campaign, he put the whole operation at serious risk.

Of course," Ignatius said in a thoughtful, serious voice, "this could be a worldwide deception." The red sateen scarf rode up and down. "The next war could turn out to be one massive orgy. Good grief. How many of the military leaders of the world may simply be deranged old sodomites acting out some fake fantasy role? Actually, this might be quite beneficial to the world. It could mean an end to war forever. This could be the key to lasting peace.

The events in Prague, together with the Berlin blockade, convinced the European recipients of American economic assistance that they needed military protection as well: that led them to request the creation of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which committed the United States for the first time ever to the peacetime defense of Western Europe.

France has the best military record in Europe. The French have fought more military campaigns than any other European nation and won twice as many battles as they have lost.

Google's acquisition of an R & D company closely linked to the military instigated a round of speculation. Many suggested that Google, having bought a military robotics firm, might become a weapons maker. Nothing could have been further from the truth. In his discussions with the technologists at the companies he was acquiring, Rubin sketched out a vision of robots that would safely complete tasks performed by delivery workers at UPS and FedEx.

We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education.

Cadets can neither be treated as schoolboys or soldiers.

Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience.

While my military experience reinforced in me the strength that I have, it also demonstrated to me that I have the ability and power to make a difference in people's lives.

After all this time and all this, quote, "experience," how is she [Hillary Clinton] not better at this [military]?

MY REGRETS ARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE I COULDN'T SAVE—Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my failure to protect them.

He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] never went to church, but he read the Bible every day and regarded himself as one of the world's two great defenders of Christendom. (The other was the pope.)

The military is very constitutionalist, and I have my faith in them and in the cooler heads of the people.

In later years, bathrooms in the residence were stocked with Trump-branded toiletries; staff repeatedly stopped him when he tried to press cash into the hands of military aides serving as valets.

The US military and the CIA got busy working on plans for the conquest of Cuba. And it would be no Mickey Mouse boat operation this time. This time, Fidel Castro and his hairy henchmen would find out what it felt like to have American fighter-bombers drop the fires of hell on their heads three hundred times a day.

The evidence of history is that no advance which can be applied to the killing of other human beings goes unused.

Respect and loyalty go together and gang members, like the formal military, hoplites, Yanomamo warriors, and chimpanzees on patrol, will risk and give their lives for one another.

I continued to find it much easier to assimilate knowledge within the structured military environment than at college, for at training sites such as Mare Island, outside influences were kept to a minimum.  All I had to do was make my bunk in the morning, show up at the appointed classrooms, and focus on the subject at hand.  Others took care of the daily routine of life while we hit the books.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.