Top 736 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Military men

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.

In counterinsurgency operations, the human terrain is the decisive terrain.

You cannot defeat an enemy you do not admit exists.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

Be it high or low, it doesn't matter. I need to stay calm and neutral all the time.

Ukraine is a big country. It is 45-46 million people. It has got a lot of modern industry; it also has a lot of very key resources. There is no reason for it not to be one of the leading countries of Europe.

Frankly, our adversaries are emboldened by the lack of American leadership in the world, and our friends and our allies, they have lost trust in us.

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.

Never take counsel of your fears.

The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

I am determined to offer an apology with my death.

Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia.

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

I will either find a way or make one.

You can't change the world alone - you will need some help - and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?

Get there first with the most.

I worked hard at whatever task I was given and embraced leadership opportunities, whether as a crossing guard, an altar boy, or a general.

What is difficult in training will become easy in a battle

If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.

Everything I did, all my actions, all of the problems I had I dedicate to God and to Chile, because I kept Chile from becoming Communist.

I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids; rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.

There's a mindset of flexibility and adaptability that comes with us. We don't mind hardship. We don't mind somebody saying, 'Go in and do this nasty job.' Whatever the job is, we can do it. That's why the nation has a Marine Corps.

A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold.

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.

Friendship is a tree to take shelter from the storm, to find shade from the blazing sun, to climb its bratches to get a better view, and to swing from when we're happy.

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

Today's tactical victory does not guarantee tomorrow's strategic success.

There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.

The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis.

Zealots often carry the day.

If you are truthful you will survive. If you lie you shall perish.

The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.

A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.

It is a fact that under equal conditions, large-scale battles and whole wars are won by troops which have a strong will for victory, clear goals before them, high moral standards, and devotion to the banner under which they go into battle.

It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire is at stake.

To conquer the command of the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat and acceptance of whatever terms the enemy may be pleased to impose.

Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher; but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood.

I didn't shoot anybody, no sir . . . I'm just a patsy.

I was shocked [of Sarah Palin ], because beating up, you know, your girlfriend, your spouse, or acts of violence aren`t one of the core symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.

The best defence of the country is the fear of the fighter. If we are strong in fighters we should probably never be attacked in force. If we are moderately strong we shall probably be attacked and the attacks will gradually be bought to a standstill. . . . If we are weak in fighter strength, the attacks will not be bought to a standstill and the productive capacity of the country will be virtually destroyed.

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

I need no bodyguard at all, for even the bravest men who approach me get weak at the knees and their hearts turn to water, whilst their heads become giddy and incapable of thinking as the sweat of fear paralyzes them.

A war is not lost until you consider it lost.

Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement.

The happiest people among us are those who can sleep when they want to.

We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.

Whoever can lift a rifle, should have one.