Quotes on Military

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Sir, what can be said of these things? Is it the arm of the flesh that hath done these things? Is it the wisdom and counsel, or strength of man? It is the Lord only. God will curse that man and his house that dares to think otherwise. Sir, you see the work is done by a Divine leading. God gets into the hearts of men, and persuades them to come under you.

Here's to us, who's like us Damn few, and they're all dead.

I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not Honor more.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

You think that social media is about hooking up online? For these kids [in the Tunisian Revolution], it was a military tool to defend unarmed people from murderers.

The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.

If you entrench yourself behind strong fortifications, you compel the enemy seek a solution elsewhere.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage, - a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array...

My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

It's not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It's who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it, spend time with your families.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.