Quotes on Military

He who commands the sea has command of everything.

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

I believe that forgiving them is god's function, our job is to arrange the meeting.

Go forward until the last round is fired and the last drop of gas is expended...then go forward on foot!

War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula

The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.

The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is against sound policy for a free people to keep up large military establishments and standing armies in time of peace, both from the enormous expenses, with which they are attended, and the facile means, which they afford to ambitious and unprincipled rulers, to subvert the government, or trample upon the rights of the people.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness.

We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us.

No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.