Quotes About Military

I'm not a fan of what we call 'friendly fire' or 'blue on blue.' We don't want to have that.

The military is diverse and large, and it's public: it serves a public function; it serves a public duty.

I've got a lot of military kids who are not in on-base child care, and they should be. So it's things like that I'm going to change, either from a funding perspective or a policy perspective.

Well, then, he ought to write her a letter. He ought to say: 'This is to tell you that I propose to live with you as soon as this show is over. You will be prepared immediately on cessation of active hostilities to put yourself at my disposal; please. Signed, Xtopher Tietjens, Acting O.C. 9th Glams. A proper military communication.

But of course he hates you for being in the army. All the men who aren't hate all the men that are.

If you only would! He added rather diffidently: If you would not mind remembering that I am a military court of inquiry. It makes it easier for me to report to the general if you say things dully and in the order that they happened.

Taking a trip with the Air Force Special Operations Wing folks is not like a flight on a normal airliner. For one thing, passengers and crew are all armed to the teeth. The seating is awful, the noise is incredible, and there is no movie. Your stewardess is likely to be a guy wearing a shoulder holster, and he will not bring you a pillow.

Military foolishness is ultimately suicidal. They believe that by risking death they pay the price of any violent behavior against enemies of their own choosing. They have the invader mentality, that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions.

But you invite ..." "I invite a bit of military nonsense." "That's what I ..." "Duncan, I am a teacher. Remember that. By repetition, I impress the lesson." "What lesson?" "The ultimately suicidal nature of military foolishness.

All of them, she thought, an entire culture trained to military order. What a priceless thing is here for an outcast Duke!

The Lord Leto says that when it was denied an external enemy, the all-male army always turned against its own population. Always.

Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. This is the danger of entrenched bureaucracy to its subject population. Even spoils systems are preferable because levels of tolerance are lower and the corrupt can be thrown out periodically. Entrenched bureaucracy seldom can be touched short of violence. Beware when Civil Service and Military join hands!

If there is no enemy, one must be invented. The military force which is denied an external target always turns against its own people.

He offered to parade for me a series of examples—famous military figures who were frozen in adolescence. I declined the offer. I have read my history with care and have recognized this characteristic for myself." Moneo turned and looked directly into Idaho's eyes.

he also had been trained in the ultimate military sense: You trained a recruit to train a weapon, to aim the weapon correctly.

That's what he means by give up the initiative. He wants to crush them, suppress them, control them, prevent them. He is living proof that there is little difference between the police mind and the military mind.

Loyalty in a male army fastens onto the army itself rather than onto the civilization which fosters the army.

Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex.

Dwight Eisenhower warned American citizens at the end of his presidency about the implications of the military-industrial complex and its influence over government. We have now gone well beyond any of the wildest imaginations that could have entered Eisenhower's mind.

The Cold War was wildly expensive and consumed the entire globe.

I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away.

As a citizen of the United States, I am ready, willing, and able to bear arms for this country.

In the military, they give medals for people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others may survive. In business, we give bonuses to people who sacrifice others.

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility.