Top 736 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Military men - Page 12

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States; the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas.

Strike an enemy once and for all. Let him cease to exist as a tribe or he will live to fly in your throat again.

Some people say there are plenty of fish in the sea - until you find love - then there is only one.

You are very fortunate to be assigned to duty at Fortress Monroe on Chesapeake Bay; it is just the season for soft shelled crabs, and hog fish have just come in, and they are the most delicious panfish you ever ate.

We now have to see our country surrender to the enemy without demonstrating our power up to 120 percent. We are now on a course for a humiliating peace - or, rather, a humiliating surrender.

Now, gentlemen, let tomorrow be their Waterloo!

The Japanese army is now prepared to use every means within its power to subdue its opponents. The objectives of the Japanese Expeditionary Forces are, as clearly set forth in statements issued by the Japanese Government, not only to protect the vested interests of Japan and the lives and property of the Japanese residents in the affected area, but also to scourge the Chinese Government and army who have een pursuing anti-foreign and anti-Japanese policies in collaboration with Communist influences.

Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks.

What people do in their private lives, these are not big issues that our country's dealing with.

Attacks on cities are strategically justified in so far as they tend to shorten the war and so preserve the lives of allied soldiers.

We had generals who were admirals and admirals who wanted to be generals. Generals acting as admirals are bad enough, but it was the admirals who wanted to be generals who imperiled victory among the coral islands.

There's a difference between batting at number four position and batting in the lower order.

All systems in Pakistan appear to be in a haste to achieve something, which can have both positive and negative implications. Let us take a pause and examine the two fundamental questions: One, are we promoting the rule of law and the Constitution? Two, are we strengthening or weakening the institutions?

I could not claim them because I was not supposed to be flying in combat.

The general verdict among the German generals I interrogated in 1945 was that Field-Marshal von Manstein had proved the ablest commander in their Army, and the man they had most desired to become its Commander-in-Chief. It is very clear that he had a superb sense of operational possibilities and equal mastery in the conduct of operations, together with a greater grasp of the potentialities of mechanized forces than any other commander who had not been trained in the tank arm. In sum, he had military genius.

I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them.

Prussian Field Marshals do not mutiny.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

I think if we really break it down and talk about post-traumatic stress disorder, it`s very different than the way Sarah Palin explained it.

Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.

Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.

...our state will not...secede. Have no doubt but Lincoln will make a good president - at least we ought to give him a fair trial.

What I believe in is I believe in law.

To tell the truth, I just lost confidence in Joe Hooker.

The bottom line is, you really have to commit to something if you're going to be successful in it.

I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.

Tukhachevsky was an especially damaging loss for the army and the state.

Voroshilov was a hard-riding, hard-drinking military crony of civil-war days.

The secondary attack was made against The Hague. Its aim was to get a hold upon the Dutch capital, and in particular to capture the Government offices and the Service headquarters.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

There isn't a fight that I'm in that I'm not asking the question, 'What could we have done to avoid this?' Or, 'What can we do to avoid this in the future in terms of the kinds of things that we see?'

No battle can be won in the study, and theory without practice is dead.

Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance!

To be a good leader, you have to be a good communicator. As a leader, you have to communicate your intent every chance you get, and if you fail to do that, you will pay the consequences.

Though we love to think that we are civilized & developed than that of people lived centuries ago. In reality, the world is still run through the principle of 'Might is right'. Whoever - government or individual - has more power & money is dominating and, in many cases, oppressing people who are financially & politically weaker.

If the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eaton, the Japanese bases in the Pacific were captured on the beaches of the Caribbean.

We have learned the need to be flexible or to have flexible forces, agile forces, who can move quickly, secure themselves when they arrive in a location, assess the needs of a given mission, and move to that mission.

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

From 8,000 miles away... I would not judge a fellow soldier from a friendly nation and how they are employing their resources.

This is an era of violent peace.

I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.

It is unfair to suppose that one party has invariably acted rightly, and that the other is responsible for every wrong that has been committed.

In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

Yes no yes no yes no? Red blue? Yes red, no blue? No red, yes no? In out, up down? Do don't, can can't? Choices sit on the shelf life New shoes in a shoe shop. If the in crowd are squeezing into a must-have shoe And the one pair left are too tiny for you Don't feel compelled into choosing them If you're really a size 9, buy that size. While everyone else Hobbles round with sore feet Your choices should feel comfortable Or they aren't your choices at all. Why limp when you can sprint

Never leave an enemy behind, or it will rise again to fly at your throat !

Do we really know anybody? Who does not wear one face to hide another?

After this urgent protest against entering into battle at Gettysburg according to instructions - which protest is the first and only one I ever made during my entire military career - I ordered my line to advance and make the assault.

People who don't gamble aren't worth talking to.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

A man of real purpose puts his faith in himself always. Sometimes he refuses even to put his faith in the gods. So from time to time, he falls into error.

Success can not be administrated.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Iraq is not about oil.

I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.

America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth, Freedom, and Religion, encouraged by the smiles of Justice and defended by her own patriotic sons.

The World War demonstrated the importance of Field Artillery. The majority of casualties were inflicted by the arm.

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.