Top 1200 Armed Forces Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

In truth, we are the only developed country on earth with a constitution that recognizes the God-given right to keep and bear arms, and the human right of individual armed defense of self, family, home and country.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

When you suffer a few losses in the playoffs, it forces you back into the gym early on.

Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.

The Bhagavadgita is a gospel of non-co-operation between the forces of darkness and those of light.

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

France believes in armed intervention by America only when the intervention is in France to rescue France from occupation by other powers.

When consciousness has no thoughts in it, one can experience spirit and live in harmony with the universal forces.

Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped. Diffidence, therefore, which is so able a mentor to the writer, would prove a dangerous counsellor for the orator.

Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them....I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.

Let us hope our weapons are never needed - but do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny.

The U.S. Forces are winning in Iraq. It is to be hoped that they will win at home also.

A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.

Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police and the other specialized detachments of the state's monopoly of armed violence.

During my 20 years as a Marine, I served three combat tours and as a Congressional Fellow advising a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee on defense and foreign policy. I went on to serve in the Pentagon as Marine Corps' liaison to the State Department.

Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.

Chilvalry's essential function, Maurice Keen has written, is always to hold up an idealised image of armed conflict in defiance of the harsh realities of actual warfare. By definition, chivalry also reaffirms the paramount importance of custom, hierarchy and inherited rank.

Sad will be the day when the American people forget their traditions and their history, and so longer remember that the country they love, the institutions they cherish, and the freedom they hope to preserve, were born from the throes of armed resistance to tyranny, and nursed in the rugged arms of fearless men.

The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present.

Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it; and therefore, of all the Grecians, Homer doth ever make Achilles the best armed.

Planet Earth is our shared island, let us join forces to protect it

I am a father who never pushes or forces his children into anything.

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won't let go.

Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.

Think BIG. There are unseen forces ready to support your dreams.

Liberty does not exist where rights are on one side and power on the other. To be liberty, rights must be armed with vital powers. A people cannot be free who do not participate in the control of the government which operates upon them.

We've been able to build up the Afghan security forces and stabilize it.

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.

The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.

When the forces that hold it together go away, the body must fall.

What is the true and original root of Dutch aversion to British rule? It is the abiding fear and hatred of the movement that seeks to place the native on a level with the white man ... the Kaffir is to be declared the brother of the European, to be constituted his legal equal, to be armed with political rights.

Moving pictures have become one of the greatest revitalizing forces in race adjustment.

I think having an uncompromising ideology eventually forces you out of the norm.

Every country where the the United States maintains troops has a status of forces agreement.

On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace.

There are a lot of weapons that we've developed which we've pulled back from - biological weapons, chemical weapons, etc. This may be the case with armed autonomous robotics, where we ultimately pull back from them.

Success looks like you sitting here pretty confident that an armed brigade isn't going to come pouring in here and blow your head off. Which I don't think is your major concern. Therefore, the United States' foreign policy is successful.

... photojournalism has its tremendous rewards and it's wonderful work. In what other work can you wander aimlessly with a camera around your neck, armed only with your personal interest and your eyes?

The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, culture. It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing art to defend their collapsing culture.

I think pressure when you work is good. It forces you to take risks and to do other things.

The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.

I have a lot of respect for our police forces. They are generally honest and effective.

Nations, not least America, retain full command of their national forces.

FACT: Nothing in Obamacare forces people out of their health plans.

I do not share the general view that market forces are the basis of personal liberty.

It used to bug me that I couldn't even afford to take my family for a proper holiday. I didn't have any professional knowledge, and getting a photographer's job in a magazine was out of the question. So, armed with a Pentax K1000, I started going to various maidans of Mumbai, looking for subjects.

Slavery in the modern world implies the absolute deprivation of the individual's liberty, while possession of weapons and mastery of their use are means to the individual's liberation. We do not perceive how a man may be armed and at the same time bereft of his freedom.

Never underestimate the magnitude of the power of the forces that reinforce the status quo.

I'd rather be robbed by an armed highway man than the politicians and their bankers. A highway man gets away from you as fast as he can and lets you alone. The politician robs you and stands there and insists he did it for your own good.

From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders.

Let's just say I was in Special Forces and leave it at that. People can read into that what they like.

The vibrations of mental forces are the finest and consequently the most powerful in existence.

Our friends can't trust us anymore. You know, Ukraine was a nuclear-armed state. They gave away their nuclear arms with the understanding that we would protect them. We won't even give them offensive weapons.

Act boldly and unforeseen forces will come to your aid.

[Insurgents] pose no strategic threat to the United States or to the Coalition Forces.

I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard.

I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government.

It always seems to me odd to call a place a wilderness when every wilderness area in the US bristles with rules and regulations as to how you can behave, what you're allowed to do, and is patrolled by armed rangers enforcing the small print. They're parks, of course, not wildernesses at all.