Quotes About Military

Thus, the well-known theme of "separation of Church and State" was but one of many interrelated motifs that could be summed up as "separation of the economy from the State," "separation of speech and press from the State," "separation of land from the State," "separation of war and military affairs from the State," indeed, the separation of the State from virtually everything

The fact that your government now invests more in the military than in religion proves that no one is following the scriptures. Simply because they rely on reality and know that war cannot be avoided forever.

The people of England and their monarchy are only good at trade, but they have little or no experience on the battlefield. Thus, it is impossible for them to be considered a world power.

But Jack, you're just a Captain and I'm the General. I order you not to go. He tried to smile, . . . .These orders, he whispered, come from the Commander in Chief.

There is no way to know precisely how many men deserted. The official count from the U.S. provost marshal's report was 103,400. This was out of a total of 750,000 to 850,000 men listed as in the army by the end of the war.

infuriated Eisenhower, who dispatched the 101st Airborne Division and federalized the Arkansas National Guard. Military protection ensured that the nine black students slated to attend Central High were not barred.

This last southern colony was the most unusual of Britain's offspring. An ex-military man, James Oglethorpe, was its guiding force, and he saw this venture as a unique opportunity to reconstruct class relations. It

Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

The soldiers became desperate. 'We were absolutely, literally starved,' noted Private Joseph Martin in his diary. After four days without food, he gnawed a piece of black birch bark off a stick. Then, 'I saw several of the men roast their old shoes and eat them.

documentary The Invisible War (which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and

While most physicists had long been accepting military R & D funds, they reacted differently to SDI, fomenting a coordinated effort to block the program. By May 1986, sixty-five hundred academic scientists had signed a pledge not to solicit or accept funds from the missile defense research program, a pledge that received abundant media coverage.

I have destroyed the Austrian army by simply marching

the first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue

Every soldier carries a marshall's baton in his pack.

Never march by flank in front of an army in position. This principle is absolute.

An army ought to be ready every moment to offer all the resistance of which it is capable.

Every French soldier carries a marshal's baton in his knapsack.

Madame Montholon having inquired what troops he considered the best, "Those which are victorious, Madame," replied the Emperor.

Chief of the Army.

An army marches on its stomach.

What are the conditions that make for the superiority of an army? Its internal organization, military habits in officers and men, the confidence of each in themselves; that is to say, bravery, patience, and all that is contained in the idea of moral means.

The nature of strategy consists of always having, even with a weaker army, more forces at the point of attack or at the point where one is being attacked than the enemy.

Get there first with the most men.

Your job is to be the hardest motherfucker in your platoon," he said while pointing at me across the desk. "Do that, and everything else will fall into place." He added that I was assigned to Bravo Company, call sign Hitman, and wished me luck.