Quotes About Military

Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.

By 2015 more British Muslims were fighting for Isis than for the British armed forces.

The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.

Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test.

Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired in the final analysis, is a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and not clothed.

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

If the Army helped towards my tuition fees I would then give them four years of my life.

The nation no longer stands for the enlightenment tradition, but rather for military-political hegemony and the total commodification of life.

Other countries, such as the United Kingdom and the European Union—as well as Twitter—make the distinction between Hezbollah's military wing and its political arm—putting only the former on their blacklists—while still others do not list Hezbollah at all.

In view of China's growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia's permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies.

To me, "terrorism" is to "authorized military bombing" what a "cult" is to a "religion"—the main difference seems to be that neither the cults nor the terrorists have gone pro yet.

terrorism is nothing more than a form of psy­chological warfare, as acts of terrorism have no intrinsic military value aside from their effects on the psyches of the target populations.

But when it comes to foreign policy and particularly issues involving the corporations, the banks, or the military, there is no difference between the two parties.

Kriegsentscheidend, or Decisive for the War. Most top-secret German weapons, including the V rockets, were merely classified Kriegswichtig

There's no way you can convince a conventional military thinker that the price of success in guerilla war is pig shit. They'll accept casualties, privation, hunger, death, destruction, murder and the CIA. But they won't accept unshined belt buckles and they damn sure won't accept pig shit.

You always hear all these statements like "freedom isn't free." You hear the president talking about all these people making sacrifices. But you never really know until you carry one of them in the casket. When you feel their body weight. When you feel them, that's when you know. That's when you understand. —MARINE STAFF SERGEANT KEVIN THOMAS

The U.S. Armed Forces are the best trained, best equipped fighting forces in the world.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

He shouted out like a drill sergeant, " Men, are we having fun yet? "No sir!" the vets cried out. " Men , are we going to fight like soldiers or fools?" The vets looked at one another, grinned. "Like fools, sir!" Everyone laughed. Luger dropped his cup again, but this time he kicked it hard across the room. " I can still kick! And everyone in rehab worked a little harder.

We have watched our educational system begin to fray because we have taken weapons for granted and preferred a strong military to an educated population.