Quotes About Strength

In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.

I am short a cheek-bone and an ear, but am able to whip all hell yet.

We have to get a lot tougher if we're going to win this war [with ISIS]. If we're not going to be tougher, we're never going to win this war. This is only going to get worse.

A fighter should not think only of his shete, just because he has a shete in his hand. Everything is a weapon in the warrior's mind.

Always remember that a soldier's pack is lighter than a slave's chains.

In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war; we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

There's going to be other wars. I'm sorry to tell you, there's going to be other wars. We will never surrender, but there will be other wars.

War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.

America has never gotten in a war because we were too strong.

If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct of war has always contributed most to glory and success.

We shall have a harder Christmas than we have known since the war.

There are some who feel like - that the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is, bring 'em on! We've got the force necessary.

We must learn from misfortune the means of future strength.

No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I'd had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me.

Soldiers don't complain...I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.

I've fired my last shot. I think I should have another round in my belt.

Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply.

Big words do not smite like war-clubs, Boastful breath is not a bow-string, Taunts are not so sharp as arrows, Deeds are better things than words are, Actions mightier than boastings.

The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war.

We in Iraq have not descended from another planet. Just as people in many other countries have gotten over the tragedy of war, Iraq will get over its ordeal.

The power of our example is more important than the strength of our military.

And she looked at him and saw the grave tenderness in his eyes, and yet knew, for she was bred among men of war, that here was one whom no Rider of the Mark could outmatch in battle.

National Defense is not a threat to peace; it is the guarantee of peace with freedom.

To go to war, you must always think of, can you win?