Quotes on Military

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.

In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.

The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.

If we come to a minefield, our infantry attacks exactly as it were not there.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

Sexual assault has no place in the military. It is a violation of everything that the US military stands for.

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.

Finally it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and affection of the inhabitants of the Philippines by assuring them in every possible way that full measure of individual rights and liberties which is the heritage of free peoples, and by proving to them that the mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation substituting the mild sway of justice and right for arbitrary rule.

When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue.

Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.

War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.

Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is straightforward: a despotic state can control its domestic enemies by force, but as the state loses this weapon, other devices are required to prevent the ignorant masses from interfering with public affairs, which are none of their business… the public are to be observers, not participants, consumers of ideology as well as products.

Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources far greater that what we need in the attack.

Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large, and by ensuring that the measures for promotion and demotion from one class to another are carried out. Above all they must maintain the educational system unchanged; for on education everything else depends, and it is an illusion to imagine that mere legislation without it can effect anything of consequence.

Safeguard the health of both body and soul.

In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.

Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think.