Quotes About Military

History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem.

The Pentagon is, admissibly, the most powerful institution in history.

The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that.

The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought.

It was possibly the most circumspect advance in the history of military maneuvers, right down at the bottom end of the scale that things like the Charge of the Light Brigade are at the top of.

Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income.

History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse.

If you go back into military history, the person who's leading the troops ought to be in with the troops and not just standing on the backline sending them into battle.

There is nothing finer in history than Thomas at Chickamauga.

Congress can grant a waiver [for General James Mattis ] and has done that once in history.

There hasn't been a military force like the United States of America in the history of the world.

There's no way I'm going to put myself through Sandhurst and then sit on my arse back home while my boys are out fighting for their country.

The constant refrain that bringing our troops home would demonstrate a lack of support for them must be one of the most amazing distortions ever foisted on the American public.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

I worked there [on Pontiac] three weeks, got really sick of it, went back home and joined the Air Force.

The best way to fight evil is to do some good. Let me qualify that—the best way to fight evil at home is to do some good. The best way to fight them abroad is to unleash the military.

A big part of the story is American imperialism, and the flip side of that is the building up of the national security state here at home.

For me, it's an honor for the military to ask me to go to Iraq, Afghanistan, or GITMO. I'm happy to go.

I was a military spouse, and I lived on military pay. It is very difficult to do that. But we do that with honor and with gratitude for the chance to serve this country.

Mad, is he? Then I hope that he will bite some of my other generals!

On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace.

I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.

I do think we need for a troop to be able to house his family. That's an important part of building morale in the military.

Hey, Tracy you army brat, I think it's for you!