Top 1200 Great Military Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

U.S. officials and outside experts agree that China is undertaking a comprehensive modernization of its military. The Chinese military has gotten smaller but smarter.

Israel is a big provider of military technology to Brazil and this has caused a big breach in the two sides of the government. On the one hand, you have the diplomatic side. On the other side, Brazil's military has been quoted in the local press as being quite upset that this diplomatic standoff could affect the military relationship.

A commander in chief with military experience might be able to prod a conservative military into thinking more imaginatively.

No military contractors should have a 'shoot first' culture that puts civilians or our brave military service members in danger.

Yes and no. Because America has only about 1 percent of the population serving in the military, it is hard for many civilians to understand the sacrifices military families make. However, my experience is that after the Vietnam War, the public learned that they should support the military whether or not they support the war. You've seen that outpouring of support for the veterans of both Iraq and Afghanistan.

I'd be all for everybody keeping their sidearms if they're in the military and on a military installation. That's something we need to get back to.

What the military will say to a reporter and what is said behind closed doors are two very different things - especially when it comes to the U.S. military in Africa.

General Atomics, the progenitor of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, started life in 1955 when a major military contractor, General Dynamics, feared that the military hardware market might dry up. It began exploring peacetime uses of atomic energy, but abandoned the effort when cold-war military spending took off.

Since 1945, no one in the U.S. military has liked the end result of the military conflicts we've been in: Vietnam, Korea, certainly Iraq, and probably Afghanistan. But in a democracy, you salute.

It's hard for me to sympathize with a young person who chooses to go into the military because they know where they're going. I think we need to start depopulating the military.

When you look at a lot of the military histories, and even modern military history, everyone pretty much refers to each other by nicknames.

I went through a period when I did military roles and played basically someone who was unfit for military service.

Military missions cannot be a normal tool of politics, but instead must remain the great exception.

I have such admiration and respect for the military and military families.

While the Pentagon ultimately awards military contracts, there is a reason for the review process. The Senate's subcommittee on Military Construction's approval carries weight.

I was a military spouse, and I lived on military pay. It is very difficult to do that. But we do that with honor and with gratitude for the chance to serve this country.

I have great respect and understanding for military commitment due to my own family's involvement with the armed forces.

Understandably, the electorate places great faith in the professional soldiers and strategists that run our military.

It appears that legal positions that you have supported have been used by the administration, the military, and the CIA to justify torture and Geneva Convention violations by military and civilian personnel.

Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.

How do you expect people to actually join the military if, when they leave the military, they can't integrate back into the free market they're supposed to be protecting?

Many U.S. military bases are located in northern Okinawa and a number of drills are conducted there. We'll work with the U.S. military to ensure that effects on local communities are kept to the minimum.

Any time you use military force, you have got to have a clear purpose that military forces can achieve.

The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.

The Humvee is an American military icon and will continue to be for decades. It is an essential part of U.S. military operations.

I worked at Military Media, an advertising agency for military-base newspapers. Don't ask, I won't tell.

It is no longer a question of controlling a military-industrial complex, but rather, of keeping the United States from becoming a totally military culture.

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military.

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

Isn't it a shame military doctors couldn't be as good as military sunglasses?

The issue of assault in the military is something that they've gone to great lengths to try to deal with - and have not entirely dealt with yet.

In military families, the service member is frequently the breadwinner. Constant moves make steady employment a challenge for non-military spouses.

I would hope that wherever I go I bring good news - that's what that word means, right? It began with the first followers of Jesus taking a Roman military propaganda term and co-opting it for their own subversive purposes, insisting that the world isn't made better through coercive military violence but through sacrificial love. How great is that!? Unfortunately this word has been hijacked in several years for other purposes but no worries, we're taking it back.

There are some militarists who say: ‘We are not interested in politics but only in the profession of arms.’ It is vital that these simple-minded militarists be made to realize the relationship that exists between politics and military affairs. Military action is a method used to attain a political goal. While military affairs and political affairs are not identical, it is impossible to isolate one from the other.

The military is the largest polluter in the country, and so you have a lot of military waste contaminating reservations - as, for example, on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation, where 5,000 sheep died in some kind of experimental military nerve gas test 10 years ago. Many of our communities are dealing with that kind of waste, and an absence of political will to clean them up.

As a lifelong educator and as part of a military family, the way we reach out to military children in our classrooms has been especially close to my heart.

Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less personal.

Hillary Clinton is going to find common ground with the Republicans on foreign and military affairs. They both want to enhance the military budget.

When it comes to the military, we have no choice. We cannot have a depleted military.

My dad has been in the military for 35 years. My brother's in the Air Force. I'm familiar with what it's like being in a military family - the unusual traumas you carry around with you.

At the same time, we're going to take care of our military and we're going to take care of our great, great, great veterans.

I'm a big fan of the military. I think we've got to preserve our military, no question about it.

The great powers of the world may have done wonders in giving the world an industrial and military look but the great gift still has to come from Africa - giving the world a more human face.

The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world.

We have strong statistical evidence that shows that transgender people are twice as likely as their fellow citizens to join the military, to have served in the military.

To imagine that it is possible to perform great military deeds without fighting is just empty dreams.

A military is built to fight. Our military must regard combat capability as the criterion to meet in all its work and focus on how to win when it is called on.

It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets.

We have seen the most well-funded gay and lesbian rights organizations valorize the US military in their work seeking inclusion in military service.

Making America great again begins with making our military great again.

There's an ocean of misunderstanding. It's called the civilian-military divide. I had a lot to learn about our military - who they are, what burdens they carry.

The world spends two trillion dollars a year on military, and of that two trillion the United States spends one trillion. We have a bigger military than the rest of the world put together. We have 150 foreign military bases.

Before consulting the hotheads who present various military options such as a military invasion: remember, President Reagan, Rambo only exists in the movies.

Great military leaders have to sacrifice soldiers; great captains of industry have to sacrifice people. You can't only look after the poor, and the weak, and the disabled. You've got to do what's best for the community, and that often means sacrificing innocent people.

The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.

Every time I tour military outlets, I dedicate the food, fitness and set-ups to their service, because it all came to me through the military.

The United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets of the Assad regime.

The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization.