Us Military Quotes:

I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot.

- Wietse Venema

topic: Military, Feet, Shooting, Desktop, Us Military

I hate it when they say, �He gave his life for his country.� They don�t die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them.

- Gene La Rocque

topic: Country, Peace, Hate, Third World War, Us Military

So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Humor, Soul, Victory, Inspiration And Motivation, Special Operations

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Freedom, Individual, Military History, Military Leader, Individual Freedom

We few. We happy few. We band of brothers, for he today That sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 35

topic: Brother, Business, Military, Renaissance Man, Army Navy

My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age.

- Curtis LeMay

source: "Mission With LeMay: My Story" by Curtis E. LeMay, MacKinlay Kantor, (p. 565), 1965.

topic: Horny, Age, Stones, Military Aviation, Military Power

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: Ernest Hemingway, William Kozlenko (1942). “Men at War: The Best War Stories of All Time”, New York : Crown Publishers

topic: Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Military, Soldiers At War, Military Force

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Inspirational, Strength, Beach, Military Leadership, Never Surrender

They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.

- Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.

topic: Army, Bad Ass, Poor, Us Military

In the councils of government, 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.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

source: Farewell radio and television address to the American people, 17 Jan. 1961

topic: Military, Responsibility, Government, Democratic Process, Take Nothing For Granted

From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition; And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 35

topic: Brother, Thinking, Blood, Henry V, Renaissance Man

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspirational Football, Marathon Runners

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

- Michel de Montaigne

topic: Memorial Day, Courage, Veterans Day, Memorial Day Thank You, War Veteran

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

- John F. Kennedy

source: Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

topic: Inspirational, Memorial Day, Freedom, Inaugural Speech, Independence And Freedom

We have met the enemy and they are ours.

- Oliver Hazard Perry

source: Message toWilliam Henry Harrison, 10 Sept. 1813. The source is Perry's dispatch from the U.S. brig Niagara to General Harrison, announcing that victory at the Battle of Lake Erie was secure. The dispatch was written in pencil on the back of an old letter; it is quoted in Robert B. McAfee, History of the LateWar in theWestern Country (1816). SeeWalt Kelly 2; Walt Kelly 3

topic: Military, Enemy, Mets, Military History, Military Soldier

The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

- Patrick Henry

topic: Inspirational, Courage, Veterans Day, Soldiers At War, Forged

The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps.

- Alexander Vandegrift

topic: Military, Knees, Tradition, My Marine, Marine Corps

The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.

- George Washington

topic: Military, War, People, Memorial Day Soldiers, Military Memorial

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

- Billy Graham

topic: Motivational, Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Inspirational Courage, Memorial Day Heroes

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving, I Am Thankful, Inspirational Gratitude

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Inspirational, Life, Basketball, Marathon Runners, Marathon Running

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

- John Stuart Mill

source: "The Contest in America", Fraser's Magazine, February 1862.

topic: War, Patriotic, Thinking, Soldiers At War, Ugly Things

Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Country, Veterans Day, Brother, Military Soldier, Military Veteran

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

- John Stuart Mill

topic: Freedom, War, Fighting, Soldiers At War, Ugly Things

If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what's supposed to come next.

- Bruce Sterling

topic: Military, Hands, Next, Us Military

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

- Maya Angelou

topic: Veterans Day, Women, Hero, Fireman, Women Equality

We make war that we may live in peace.

- Aristotle

topic: Strength, Veterans Day, Peace, War Veteran, Fighting Battles

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

- Elmer Davis

topic: Veterans Day, Courage, Memories, India Independence Day, Independence Day

Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes! Then fire low!

- Israel Putnam

topic: Eye, Fire, Revolution, Military Soldier, Bunkers

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

- Zell Miller

source: 2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 1 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

topic: Veterans Day, Military, Army, Joining The Army, Joining The Military

Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!

- William H. Prescott

topic: Memorial Day, Military, War, Military Soldier, Bunkers

It is God's job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.

- Norman Schwarzkopf

topic: Jobs, Military, Forgiving, Military General, Military Memorial

Don't forget, incoming fire has the right of way.

- Clint Smith

topic: Military, Gun, Fire, Soldiers At War, Military Soldier

It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena...

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

topic: Men, Arena, Credit, Strong Man, Putting Yourself Out There

The leading members of ISIS were either tortured in US military prisons or in the prisons of the Shi'a government which the Americans put in place.

- Yanar Mohammed

topic: Military, Government, Isis, Us Military

During the 1990's, Colombia was the leading recipient of US military aid and training in the hemisphere. Approximately half of all US aid in the hemisphere went to Colombia. Colombia was also far and away the leading human rights violator in the hemisphere.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: www.madre.org

topic: Military, Rights, Training, Us Military

I think, broadly speaking, the US military's role - US military activism in various parts of the Islamic world over the past several decades has been counterproductive.

- James Mattis

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Military, Islamic, Past, Us Military

Al-Qaeda, ISIS, they can't be Islamic. Islam is the religion of peace. They are bastardizing it. They are frauds. They are calling themselves Islamic and they are calling themselves Muslim, but they're not. Because Islam is as anti-terror as you and I are. Islam is the religion of peace. I'm telling you what our government's position is. The US military position.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Military, Islamic, Government, Us Military

The collective shortfall of the 3.08 billion people (47 percent of world population) who, in 2005, lived below $2.50 per day was $507 billion per annum, which indeed comes to about two-thirds of the present US military budget. This gives us a rough sense of how much the eradication of poverty would cost.

- Thomas Pogge

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Military, Two, People, Military Budget, World Population

South America has virtually broken away in the last decade. That's an event of historic significance. South America just doesn't follow US orders. In fact there isn't a single US military base left there.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Military, America, Order, South America, Us Military

The United States is alone among all the countries in that it does not permit US military forces to be under any threat. Other countries are willing to have forces in peace-keeping operations where they sometimes are under threat, but the US is not willing to do that.

- Noam Chomsky

topic: Country, Military, United States, Us Military

The US military has achieved a decisive blow against al-Qaeda with its commando action against Osama Bin Laden and his killing.

- Angela Merkel

topic: Military, Blow, Als, Commandos, Us Military

For us military men, it is impossible to forget.

- Andrei Grechko

source: Quoted in "Bulletin" - by Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars - Cold War, 1995.

topic: Military, Men, Impossible, Impossible To Forget, Military Man

I do not think witchcraft is a religion, and I do not think it is in any way appropriate for the US military to promote it.

- George W. Bush

topic: Military, Thinking, Scary, Us Military

Actions speak louder than words. The reality is that at least 10 journalists have been killed by the US military, and according to reports I believe to be true journalists have been arrested and tortured by US forces.

- Eason Jordan

source: "US military 'still failing to protect journalists in Iraq'" by Claire Cozens, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2004.

topic: Military, Believe, Reality, Actions Speak Louder, Actions Speak Louder Than Words

ISIS has a caliphate the size of Indiana! Also, US military has been totally gutted. Can't even project power anymore.

- Jeb Bush

topic: Military, Isis, Indiana, Us Military

If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War In time of war the first casualty is truth.

- Boake Carter

topic: Military, War, People, Us Military

I have no regrets - in fact, I am pleased to have expelled the US ambassador, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and to have closed the US military base in Bolivia. Now, without a US ambassador, there is less conspiracy, and more political stability and social stability. Without the International Monetary Fund, we are better off economically.

- Evo Morales

topic: Regret, Military, Political, Us Military

I put my heart and soul everyday into showing my appreciation for the incredible sacrifices of the US Military heroes by using my freedom and rights, that they provided and safeguarded at such sacrifice, to the best of my ability fighting the enemies at home.

- Ted Nugent

topic: Appreciation, Military, Hero, Us Military