Top 736 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Military men - Page 2

I am confident that the day is not far distant when the light of peace shine again.

I preach darkness. I don't inspire hope—only shadows. It's up to you to find the light in my words.

My life is simple, my food is plain, and my quarters are uncluttered. In all things, I have sought clarity. I face the troubles and problems of life and death willingly. Virtue, integrity and courage are my priorities. I can be approached, but never pushed; befriended but never coerced; killed but never shamed.

If I owned Texas and Hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell.

I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is as humiliating as hell. I think we ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake it.

Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia.

It would have been easier to fight alone with inadequate forces than to have to accept...responsibility for our ally's lack of fighting qualities and dubious loyalty.

I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.

My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it.

The Gen. Commanding, takes this means of informing the people that he has not come among them to disturb them in the enjoyment of their rights, either of person or property.

I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out.

We have met the enemy and they are ours.

Never fear your enemies, fear your actions.

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.

I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that . . .

The Arabs are victims. You have Shia Arabs, under Arabization under Saddam Hussein, who were forcibly moved up there... You have Kurds who were displaced by these Arabs that were moved up there by Saddam Hussein. Kurds have been displaced from Kirkuk for hundreds of years.

I think for the wounded, ill and injured warriors, they need the best possible care that we can give them - a continuum of care that not only started on the battlefield and extended all the way to the wonderful medical facilities that we have here in the United States - but beyond.

Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.

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

I go where the sound of thunder is.

Men never fail to underestimate women.

No blood has been shed under my command this far; and I am determined none shall be!

It appears I am destined for something; I will live.

We're not the public service of Canada, we're not just another department. We are the Canadian Forces, and our job is to be able to kill people.

The curse of God must have been on our people when we chose him out of so many noble sons of the South, who would have carried us safely through this Revolution.

Tukhachevsky hid Napoleon's baton in his rucksack.

We may be annihilated, but we cannot be conquered.

In this respect I expressed my doubts about using the Corps directly on the South coast, to form a bridgehead for the Army - as the area immediately behind the coast was now covered with obstacles. These doubts were accepted by Hitler.

Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.

O God, since thou made Zhou Yu, why did thou also create Zhuge Liang?

The Truly Healthy environment is not merely safe but stimulating.

I sincerely believe that I have served a criminal. I led my soldiers in good conscience... but for a criminal government.

Make sure your son and daughter understands they don't get to decide when or where they go to war. It is rich, predominantly white men in the House and Senate that have the power to send children of other parents - but not their own children - off to die [and] be injured in a senseless war.

Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master.

My knowledge of pain, learned with the sabre, taught me not to be afraid. And just as in dueling when you must concentrate on your enemy's cheek, so, too, in war. You cannot waste time on feinting and sidestepping. You must decide on your target and go in.

One hundred rounds do not constitute fire power. One hit constitutes fire power.

The safety of the country is at stake... We must let ourselves be killed on the spot rather than retreat... No faltering can be tolerated today.

Theater people work by instinct. I've never known a really calculated artistic decision.

We plan alone but we fulfill our plans together with the enemy, as it were, in accordance with his opposition.

I have always considered Saipan the decisive battle of the Pacific offensive...(it was) the naval and military heart and brain of the Japanese defence strategy.

When you worry, you go over the same ground endlessly and come out the same place you started. Thinking makes progress from one place to another; worry remains static.

Make peace, you fools!

Power is mass multiplied by cohesion.

If you nevertheless want to know what I feel when I release a bomb, I will tell you: I feel a light bump to the plane as a result of the bomb's release. A second later it's gone, and that's all. That is what I feel.

I have lived in the United States and I know the might of their industrial complex. The United States is a sleeping giant and I am afraid that our attack has awakened it.

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.

I can assure you, that the gallant hearts that throb beneath its sacred folds, will only be content, when this glorious banner is planted first and foremost in the coming struggle for our independence.

Any effort which wittingly or unwittingly draws a wedge between the people and Armed Forces of Pakistan undermines the larger national interest.

The Duce will have Ethiopia, with or without the Ethiopians.

I'm going to fight my way out, I'm going to take all my equipment and all my wounded and as many dead as I can. If we can't get out this way, this Division will never fight as a unit again.

There is nothing preventing the enemy reaching Paris. We were fighting on our last line and it has been breached. I am helpless, I cannot intervene.

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does

My plans are perfect, and when I start to carry them out, may God have mercy on Bobby Lee, for I shall have none.

Success and glory are in the advance, disaster and shame lurk in the rear.

Major, send a shell first over their heads and let them get in their holes before you open with all your guns.

Souness gave Fleck a second chance and he grabbed it with both feet.

Army requests immediate permission to surrender in order to save lives of remaining troops.

Never wrestle with pigs. You get dirty and they enjoy it.

There are more teams looking for pitchers than there are pitchers. That's why it's pricey.

I believe that fortitude is key. More than anything, be consistent. Go at it. Go at it. Go at it. When you succeed, don’t forget the responsibility of making somebody else succeed with you.