Top 736 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Military men - Page 3

For dash and gallantry the bloodthirsty Scots, Australians and Canadians led the way, with the impetuous Irish close behind. The Australian to my mind were the most aggressive, and managed to keep their form in spite of their questionable discipline. Out of the line they were undoubtedly difficult to handle, but once in it they loved a fight. They were a curious mixture of toughness and sentimentality.

I have a clear conscience.

We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace.

With us air people, the future of our nation is indissolubly bound up in the development of air power.

My arm extended upward in pleading for peace and the Union of our Fathers... When my hand came down from that impassioned gesticulation, it fell slowly and sadly by the side of a Secessionist.

The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month.

The natural environment is the great outpatient department where we can go for healing

Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the civil servant - it doesn't work and it can't be fired.

I want to make sure that the Coast Guard people in Vietnam know that I am hearing about them often and that I am pleased with what I hear.

Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking. . . . If we are to be sure of our liberty, we must be ready to fight for it.

The Navy-Marine Corps team is unique in history because its mobility and versatility permit it to make a contribution in virtually every medium of warfare: land, sea and air.

Never fear your enemy but always respect them

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

Theory is continually the precursor of truth; we must pass through the twilight and its shade, to arrive at the full and perfect day.

I’d rather protect a living, breathing person I can touch than some shogun above the clouds I’ll never see.

My men are being unmercifully shelled. They cannot hold out if an attack is launched. The firing line and my headquarters are being plastered with heavy guns and the town is being swept by shrapnel. I myself am O.K. but the front line is being buried.

You may fire when you are ready Gridley.

I can never again see a UNITED STATES MARINE without experiencing a feeling of reverence.

It is my wish and the wishes of my people to live peaceably and quietly with you.

Thorough preparation must lead to success. Neglect nothing.

The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps.

We may not know who is craft beer but we sure as hell will know what is craft beer by who isn't.

Look, how they scold me for all my loving and tippling, now that the silvery edges shine forth from my brow!

Live for this life as though you live in it forever and live for the life to come as though you die tomorrow.

In order to assure an adequate national defense, it is necessary - and sufficient - to be in a position in case of war to conquer the command of the air.

Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.

Myself, I don't think you will ever get security in the Mideast until you have what on the surface appears to be fair to both sides. You have to have leaders committed to peace, on both sides. One side can't impose a solution.

The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind.

According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.

The Iraq War is the largest strategic blunder in U.S. history … On every level - moral, strategic, military and economic - Iraq was a failure. And it was you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, who started this war. It is you who should pay the consequences.

I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.

I am by nature the most intolerant and insular Englishman... If you happen to be a person like that and you learn from evidence (which you are prepared to accept) that in the past you have been a Chinese, an Egyptian, a Persian, a Red Indian... you begin to assume a somewhat less exclusive view of these our fellow men.

It is never very crowded at the front.

I accept responsibility for U-boat warfare from 1933 onward, and of the entire navy from 1943 on, but to make me responsible for what happened to Jews in Germany, or Russian soldiers on the east front it is so ridiculous all I can do is laugh.

Allied air power was the greatest single reason for the German defeat.

We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention

If you have a sudden emergency, earthquake, hurricane, you name it, we want to be able to have a National Guard officer able to command federal forces.

Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out of him, but with that other guy I can't keep what I've got.

Play the gayest tunes in your books, play them loud and keep on playing them, and never mind if a bullet goes through a trombone, or even a trombonist, now and then.

Orderly discipline and morale within an army was the responsibility of the Division Commander.

I never trust a fighting man who doesnt smoke or drink.

Every minute that we lose will cost us great losses later that we will not be able to afford.

If the women in the factories stopped work for twenty minutes, the Allies would lose the war.

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.

The more comfort the less courage there is.

The internet is the most powerful mechanism we can imagine to match perfectly individuals who needs something, and people with something to offer.

My mother cried when I told her I really didn't want to go to West Point. So I went.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Americans are so spoiled. They think you always have to have a car, whereas I got away on my own two feet.

A word spoken in loving kindness is worth far more than any gift.

After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure; apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks.

Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.

Slobodan Milosevic was just as smart as a five-year-old. Five-year-olds have an uncanny way of getting into your psyche, your self-esteem.

Those officers and men who were immediately under my observation, evinced the greatest gallantry, and I have no doubt that all others conducted themselves as became American officers and seamen.

He was not only the most brilliant strategist of all our generals, but he had a good political sense. A man of that quality was too difficult for Hitler to swallow for long. At conferences Manstein often differed from Hitler, in front of others, and would go so far as to declare that some of the ideas which Hitler put forward were nonsense.

Our neighbors the Hollanders may be our example in this case; who whilst we have been driving a private trade from port to port, of which we are likely now to be deprived, have conquered so much land in the East and West Indies that it may be said of them, as of the Spaniards, That the sun never sets upon their dominions.

Headquarters in the Saddle.

Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the change in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after the changes occur.

Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.

Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization.