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Military Quotes
I hope you enjoy this collection of military quotes. Military Quotes Index
Army"The reason the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices it on a daily basis."
"Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats."
"Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other."
"Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision."
Return to Index of Military Quotes Character"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong."
"Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid."
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living.
Return to Index of Military Quotes Enemy"Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much."
"We have met the enemy and they are ours!"
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"Freedom isn't free."
"It is my earnest hope - indeed the hope of all mankind - that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past, a world found upon faith and understanding, a world dedicated to the dignity of man and the fulfillment of his most cherished wish for freedom, tolerance and justice."
"Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free."
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
"Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect."
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
"The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree." "Freedom is a system based on courage." "Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature." "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." Return to Index of Military Quotes
Inspirational"Live for something rather than die for nothing."
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Leadership"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death."
"You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership."
"Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy."
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
"It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them."
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Liberty"Where liberty is, there is my country." "It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you." "From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots."
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Return to Index of Military Quotes
Marines"Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a difference in the world, but the Marines don't have that problem."
"A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons."
"The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!" "Now I recall the Recon Marines ragged, filthy cammie shirted young men in green paint who move silent like the fog with deadly purpose in their eyes. Swift, Silent, Deadly. I smile." Return to Index of Military Quotes
No More Wars"The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts."
"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today."
"I cannot believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war and no one will win the next."
"There never was a good war or a bad peace." "When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?" "The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war."
Return to Index of Military Quotes Rank"The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line."
"Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy."
Return to Index of Military Quotes Soldier"Soldiers are men...most apt for all manner of services and best able to support and endure the infinite toils and continual hazards of war."
"A soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of the general."
"Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them."
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Victory"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat…You ask, what is our policy? I say it is to wage war by land, sea, and air. War with all our might and with all the strength God has given us, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory. Victory at all costs - Victory in spite of all terrors - Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival."
"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."
"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it."
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure."
"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog"
"You cannot be disciplined in great things and indiscipline in small things. Brave undisciplined men have no chance against the discipline and valor of other men. Have you ever seen a few policemen handle a crowd?"
"Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
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War"The purpose of all war is peace." "I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."
"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. The person 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."
"War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over."
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
"Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it."
"Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war."
"In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons." "War would end if the dead could return." "If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail."
"We make war that we may live in peace."
"In war there is no substitute for victory."
"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."
"Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!"
"In war, there are no unwounded soldiers." "Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later." "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
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