Quotes About Military

What is learned on the athletic field is not forgotten, nor are the lessons of character that are forged there ever lost. Consider the contributions in the field of public life, business, law, medicine, and the military of those who actively participated in athletics.

Negative public opinion of a conflict and the politicization of the military can negatively affect service members and contribute to PTSD.

I attended first a military academy, then a public school in Beverly Hills, where we lived, and many of my classmates were the children of movie stars and studio executives.

When Americans support using our military abroad, they want to see a clear plan. They want to know what they need to do and when - and policymakers want to know that there's broad public support for the effort.

Throughout my life, I have publicly and privately denounced military interventions in domestic politics. In fact, I have been advocating for democracy for decades.

When I was in the military, I socked away $100 every month. When I was discharged in 1954, I got home at 5 A.M. By 10 A.M., I was pulling out of a foreign car dealership in Pasadena in a new Jaguar XK120.

Being the daughter of an army officer, I am always punctual.

In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.

Clay Hunt was the kind of individual that has made America a great country. In 2005, when his country needed him, he enlisted in the Marine Corps. Shot in Iraq, he earned a Purple Heart, and after he recuperated, he graduated from Marine Corps Scout Sniper School and was deployed to Afghanistan.

My father's in the military, so we moved a lot. I was born in Jersey but grew up in Maryland until we moved to L.A. to pursue my acting career. Music came into it after that.

Let's push the Pentagon off the fiscal cliff.

We have to defeat ISIS. We have to make certain that we destroy them and that we push them back.

There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pushed for women in all areas.

Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.

No military contractors should have a 'shoot first' culture that puts civilians or our brave military service members in danger.

Having served in the military, I know that militaries can stop a problem, but they can't fix a problem.

The rules of engagement when I was in Afghanistan were very flexible. When you're at war, you're at war.

If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk.

Our foreign policy and our military policy is make sure that we fight on foreign shores and not shores here.

I myself am a former commando fighter.

In 1595, by order of the Privy Council, the English armed services abandoned the longbow and fought with muskets for the next two centuries and more. Nobody is sure why.

I may not have served myself, but I grew up witnessing service, and it was perhaps my most foundational experience. For a little background, I'm what's called a brat in military circles.

I think I'm far too much of a wallflower or maybe a fragile flower to be in the military.

You can spend your whole life in France without ever thinking about the Legion.