Top 1200 Military Intervention Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

In 1953, the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The Eisenhower administration believed its actions were justified for strategic reasons, but the coup was clearly a setback for Iran's political development and it is easy to see now why many Iranians continue to resent this intervention by America in their internal affairs.

I come from a military family, where service is seen as a badge of honor.

I'm a pansy when compared to the men and women of the United States military.

I take care of military families. Their sacrifices are very real.

It's an extraordinary thing to do, to go into the military and to serve your country.

On completion of my military service, I went back to the factory and to the trade union.

The United States can certainly defeat North Vietnam, but the United States cannot defeat a guerrilla war which is being raged from a sanctuary through a pattern of penetration, intervention, evasion, which is very difficult for a technologically advanced country like the United States to combat.

I was born in a family with a strong military background, so I chose to be a soldier.

With the exception of the military industrial complex, we all want a more peaceful world.

Not every threat to America's national interests can be addressed with military power.

If the positive innovations connect exponentially before the massive breakdowns reinforce one another, the system can re-pattern itself to a higher order of consciousness and freedom without the predicted economic, environmental, and social collapse...If the system could go either way, a slight intervention to assist the convergence of the positive can tip the scales of evolution in favor of the enhancement of life on Earth.

Backs dialogue for solving disputes and not military power and threats.

Englishmen Francis Galton to describe the "science" of bettering human stock and the elimination of unwanted characteristics... and individuals. Galton proposed societal intervention for the furtherance of "racial quality," maintaining that "Jews are specialized for a parasitical existence upon other nations" and that "except by sterilization I cannot yet see any way of checking the produce of the unfit who are allowed their liberty and are below the reach of moral control.

We don't need military weapons in our society. We're not supposed to be at war with one another.

The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.

Wars without military objectives have a tendency to go on forever.

My dad was a career military man, so I had that kind of discipline and training.

There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war, it's to be prepared for peace.

If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.

Missouri will continue to be a strong and willing partner with the military.

It's about time that we as Arabs take things into our own hands and figure out our own future, rather than [keep depending] on some outside force to do it for us... particularly when intervention by this outside force has not particularly been beneficial to the region in recent history.

I think that military, corporate, and non-political organizations are pretty much similar.

I can say that American men and women in the Military are damn impressive.

Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.

Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.

I did a lot of humanitarian work before I joined the military.

Let's be frank: if there are hardened terrorists [Australian] who are fighting overseas, we don't want to see those people come back to our shores. But if we could stop youngsters, teenagers from falling into the snares of ISIL or Jabhat al-Nusra or other terrorist organisations through parental intervention and other strategies then, we hope to be able to rescue them before they commit these crimes.

As journalist, I'm responsible to the American people, not to the military of the United States.

pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.

One thing I've always liked about the military is there's a certain amount of pragmatism.

The main reason for the armed resistance is the American military presence.

The immediate cause of World War III is the military preparation of it.

'Redeployment' is a military term. It means to transfer a unit from one area to another.

NATO is the most important military alliance in world history.

And as a result of the United States military, Taliban no longer is in existence.

Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.

Our four-year-old, like a lot of kids, you introduce him to an iPad and he quite quickly gets drawn in in a way that you're like, "Wow, I've got to stage an intervention here." He picked up on gaming terminology really quickly. If you say, "Keep practicing holding a pencil and see if you can draw a letter, the alphabet," he understands that if you do that you've unlocked Level Two.

With unfailing consistency, U.S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of the poor and needy. Rather than strengthening democracies, U.S. leaders have overthrown numerous democratically elected governments or other populist regimes in dozens of countries ... whenever these nations give evidence of putting the interests of their people ahead of the interests of multinational corporate interests.

There are no military solutions - dialogue and diplomacy are the only guarantee of lasting peace.

The more students work at storing the deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from their intervention in the world as transformers of that world. The more completely they accept the passive role impressed on them, the more they tend simply to adapt to the world as it is and to the fragmented view of reality deposited in them.

We've allowed our military to decay, and we project weakness on the international stage.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

I was overwhelmed by how military families felt supported and honored by 'Nubs.'

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Rebuilding the military is something Putin will pay attention to.

Military families so much appreciate the love, support and prayers.

I think civilian Americans support the military very much.

I have no problem with military and entitlement reform, lower costs raise freedom.

I'm an actor. 99.9% of all actors in the world have been in denial towards the military.

A lot of wonderful people love their country and hate the military.

Sophocles was a general: a warrior writing plays about military situations.

Foreign policy is about US national security, it is definitely not non-intervention. It is definitely not isolationist. That's where people want to hear what they want to hear and not listen to what Donald Trump says. It is about national security for the United States, and that's fine.

Democrats and Republicans alike support our military personnel.

We should have a time to reflect on the accomplishments of the military, of their sacrifices, of their failures.

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias.

Join the military, there is nothing better. You get to travel a lot.

We have no hesitation in declaring that we are a military nation- in the cause of Kodo and the highest morality.

I think we look to the military as something that protects our shores.

I'll be the first to say our military should always be fully funded.