Gordon Bennett quotes

“My men are being unmercifully shelled. They cannot hold out if an attack is launched. The firing line and my headquarters are being plastered with heavy guns and the town is being swept by shrapnel. I myself am O.K. but the front line is being buried.”
-- Gordon Bennett

#Military Quotes #Men Quotes #Gun Quotes

“If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.”

“Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.”

“Yeah, September 11 happened and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.”

Source : "Adam Driver, boy among girls". Interview with Keely Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 13, 2012.

“God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.”

“We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.”

“We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.”

“Be glad I don't have my gun because right now I'm considering the different ways I can get you to shut up. Let me scream and back off.”

“What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not...the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army...our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms....”

“I'm not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun... Not unless I have to!”

“You can be straight as a gun barrel theologically, and as empty as one spiritually.”