Quotes on Military

Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? ... The end of living and the beginning of survival.

We must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.

Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.

The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.

O America! Because you build for mankind I build for you.

It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might.

I speak the password primeval; I give the sign of democracy.

America means opportunity, freedom, power.

Being, be bold and venture to be wise.

Give obedience where 'tis truly owed.

A republic may be called the climate of civilization.

I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes.

I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.

In defeat, unbeatable; in victor, unbearable

Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.

Once and for all the idea of glorious victories won by the glorious army must be wiped out. Niether side is glorious. On either side they're just frightened men messing their pants and they all want the same thing - not to lie under theearth, but to walk upon it - without crutches.

There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so'

A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war.