Famous Military Quote

Famous Military Quote

We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have now done so much for so long with so little, we are now capable of doing anything with nothing Navy Quote

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier.
A Mother's Plea for Peace (1915)

War, children, is just a shot away, it's just a shot away.
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards

Stay alert, stay alive.
Motto of the U.S. First Infantry Division in Vietnam

For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "Savior of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot.
Rudyard Kipling

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to give the roar.
Winston Churchill

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
David Friedman

We will either find a way, or make one.
Hannibal

The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer.
Air Force Motto

Aye. Fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live. At least awhile... And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance -- just one chance -- to come back here and tell our enemies that they make take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!!
William Wallace, "Braveheart"

The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.
General Patterson (WWII)

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
Georges Clemenceau

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Groucho Marx

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Lord Salisbury

As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he as a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that. General Norman Schwarzkopf

A good plan violently executed today is better than a perfect plan executed tomorrow.
George S. Patton

When force is necessary, it must be applied boldly, decisively, and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a manuever, the blow with an agreement.
Leon Trotsky

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
H. L. Mencken

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
Mao Zedong

"If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government --and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws."
Edward Abbey

"But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American War? The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people."
Geoffrey F. Abert

"But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American War? The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people."
Geoffrey F. Abert

"Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time.
But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason."
Douglas Noel Adams

"Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit."
Felix Adler

"Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow."
Aesop

"Only cowards insult dying majesty."
Aesop

"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow." Aesop
"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow." Aesop
"In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again: and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life; toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God." James Agee "Life is not advancement. It is growth. It does not move upward, but expands outward, in all directions." Russell G. Alexander "I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia." Woody Allen "What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee." Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us.
Stevie Nicks

"The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb."""
German Proverb

Let your best be for your friend...
Kahil Gibran

Good bye, proud world! I’m going home, Thou art not my friend, I am not thine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high.Steven Seagal