Quotes About Military

The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted.

Sacrifice is the 1.3 million active duty men and women in the U.S. military and 800,000 reserve forces who volunteer to keep us safe and defend our way of life.

You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.

If one day the military comes to power, it will be through a vote.

Only native male citizens with a wife and children, a property, and a military rank should be allowed to vote and be elected for office.

I learned to be far more skeptical of what I'm told by presidents, no matter who the presidents are, and also to be much more cautious, always, in any action or vote that could lead to the use of American military power and most particularly what we call 'boots on the ground.'

If you think the President was right to open the doors of American opportunity to young immigrants brought here as children who want to go to college or serve in the military, you should vote for Barack Obama.

Whatever your political leaning, vote. This participation is vital. I feel the same way about issues like the space program, education, the military. The more the public focuses on these things, thinks and forms opinions, I think the better we are as a democracy.

If members of Congress were to vote to allow a military action, they might then share the blame if the mission were to go wrong. So they demand in the abstract that presidents ask their approval for going to war but in practice prefer to let presidents bear the burden alone.

I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.

As a lifelong Republican who served in the Army in Germany, I believe it is critical that we review - and overturn - the ban on gay service in the military. I voted for 'don't ask, don't tell.' But much has changed since 1993. My thinking shifted when I read that the military was firing translators because they are gay.

Despite egregious human rights abuses, military dictatorship in Greece, and Russian atrocities in Chechnya, no state has ever been voted out of the Council of Europe.

In 2013 I voted against military intervention in Syria.

You know, because of my military background, I talk to voters who for the first two minutes think I'm a Republican.

The United States always maintains the right to self-defense.

I was very selfish when I was in the military - a very selfish man.

I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.

There's this idea out there that, had I not been trans, the leaks and stuff would never have happened. But to my mind, those are two completely separate things. Had I been out, I think I still would have been attracted to the military, but I would have been more comfortable and gotten along with people better.

I remember coming second in a cross-country run and this sergeant major ripped in to me, saying 'you knacker, you waster - you should be second to no one.' That really got to me.

If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.

Father served in the Air Force for 22 years.

I would like America to remember those who have served and those that we've lost and their families.

My father served in the Royal Scots Fusiliers for many years.

Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor.