127 quotes found
“As a general rule, I am opposed to tax dollars being used for well, damn near anything, barring mail delivery, law enforcement, and heavy artillery.”
“Every infantryman in the Soviet Army carries with him a small spade. When he is given the order to halt he immediately lies flat and starts to dig a hole in the ground beside him.”
“Their notion of training was to march the men up and down in parades and reviews: these were nice to look at and gave them the impression of military discipline and precision, but as a preparation ...”
“They bright whiten all this sepulchre with powdered chloride of lime. It's a perfectly sanitary war.”
“The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful citizen is he who goes about heavily armed. The experience of ever...”
“For they were unseasoned, nor inured, not knowing this to be much less than the beginning of sorrow.”
“He thought it disproportionate in its violence considering the fragility of us.”
“Federal Officer: "The arms piled on the ground were not worth 10 cents a ton.”
“I'll have you understand the United States has got the best navy in the world.""Well, . . . why, then, do we need a bigger navy?""We've got to have a still bigger navy because we're the richest nat...”
“If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.”
“The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its military might in every way can it develop into a thriving country.”
“Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.”
“The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s - military intelligence, commercial, more recently, tourism and cultural relations.”
“The senior director at the NSC for the Middle East is retired Col. Derek Harvey, an Arabic-speaking intelligence officer with a Ph.D. who served as the head of the U.S. military cell examining the ...”
“I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there.”
“Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffa...”
“As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going...”
“If you're worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it's almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program.”
“I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.”
“Whether it's at a concert in France or a restaurant in the United States, terrorism doesn't have to happen in a military installation by any stretch of the imagination.”
