Top 736 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Military men - Page 13

I have been tried and condemned without a hearing, and I suppose I shall have to go to the execution.

There can be no doubt that if we had been victorious on the Vistula, the revolutionary fires would have reached the entire continent.

Now I am master of Shanghai.

Nothing would have been changed for the German people, but my name would have gone down in history as that of the greatest traitor.

I promise you, I promise you that Donald Trump knows, Donald Trump knows that the primary role of the president is to keep us safe.

An enemy forgiven is more dangerous than a thousand foes.

The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency.

Sweat saves blood.

There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.

Spread the gospel that the Marine Corps is a force that has changed. We're not in 1942 anymore.

What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense — none of which can be taught in a classroom... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done.

If the tanks succeed, then victory follows.

SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status.

I give it as my fixed opinion, that but for our graduated cadets, the war between the United States and Mexico might, and probably would have lasted some four or five years, with, in its first half, more defeats than victories falling to our share; whereas, in less than two campaigns, we conquered a great country and a peace without the loss of a single battle or skirmish.

Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.

He who is afraid is half beaten.