Tag: Military

Quotes June 24, 2022

“A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.”
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
 
 
 
 
Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.
Josephus Daniels
 
 
 
 
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living.
John F. Kennedy
 
 
 
 
Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.
Will Rogers
 
 
 
 
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
Thucydides
 
 
 
 
Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
 
 
 
 
We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle
 
 
 
 
In war there is no substitute for victory.
General Douglas MacArthur
 
 
 
 
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Ernest Miller Hemmingway
 
 
 
 
The number of medals on an officer’s breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.
Charles Edward Montague
 
 
 
 
Now I recall the Recon Marines ragged, filthy cammie shirted young men in green paint who move silent like the fog with deadly purpose in their eyes. Swift, Silent, Deadly. I smile.
GYSGT Correll, USMC, Retired– Recon Marine

Quotes June 03, 2022

“You may hate the war, but never hate the ones that fight. For they do not choose when or where to fight. All they chose was to protect who they love and even the people they don’t know.”
Millie
 
 
 
 
“There is nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer.”
Gen. James H. Doolittle
 
 
 
 
“No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.”
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
 
 
 
 
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
“Thucydides”
Dave Grossman, On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace
 
 
 
 
“These Marines left their home–all these great Americans left their home–signed up during a time of war and said, ‘I wanna do that.’ And we owe them so much gratitude. I am so, so proud. And they understand that in our profession there can be no second place. There can be no losing. Because the weight of our nation rests on their shoulders.”
Sergeant Major Bradley Kasal
 
 
 
 
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Woodrow Wilson

Quotes April 22, 2022

The friendship of a dog is precious. It becomes even more so when one is so far removed from home … I have a Scottie. In him I find consolation and diversion … he is the “one person” to whom I can talk without the conversation coming back to war.
Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower
 
 
 
 
In 1945, when the male soldiers started coming back home from Europe, she and all the other women pilots that had served as WASPs during the war were unceremoniously told to go home and never received a dime or even thanks from the government.
Author: Fannie Flagg
 
 
 
 
Be patient. Be strong. Fight back where you can. The Imperial war machine falls apart one gear, one gun, one stormtrooper at a time. The New Republic is coming. And we want your help to finish the fight.
Author: Chuck Wendig
 
 
 
 
An act of unilateral nuclear disarmament by a European power would have a much more lasting impact than all the sanctions under consideration. Sanctions, as we know from the example of Iraq, always affect the least powerful citizens the most.
Author: Tariq Ali
 
 
 
 
I met soldiers coming back from war and I was impressed by their description of PTSD, all the symptoms: the outburst of violence, the impossibility to cope with reality anymore, all that stuff.
Author: Alice Winocour

Quotes March 25, 2022

”No guts, no glory.”
Major Gen. Frederick C. Blesse
 
 
 
 
”This country has not seen and probably will never know the true level of sacrifice of our veterans”. As a civilian, I owe an unpayable debt to all our military. Going forward let’s not send our servicemen and women off to war or conflict zones unless it is overwhelmingly justifiable and on moral high ground.”
Thomas M. Smith
 
 
 
 
“The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country”
George S. Patton Jr.
 
 
 
 
“Word to the Nation: Guard zealously your right to serve in the Armed Forces, for without them, there will be no other rights to guard.”
John F. Kennedy
 
 
 
 
“The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.”
Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
 
 
 
 
“A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don’t want to do, and like it.”
Harry S. Truman
 
 
 
 
“Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.”
Colonel David Hackworth
 
 
 
 
“From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.
Thomas Jefferson
 
 
 
 
“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
Thomas Paine
 
 
 
 
“America without her Soldiers would be like God without His angels.”
Claudia Pemberton
 
 
 
 
“War is the greatest evil Satan has invented to corrupt our hearts and souls. We should honor our soldiers, but we should never honor war.”
Dean Hughes

Quotes December 24, 2021

In a military operation, the command and control elements are a legitimate target.
Stephen Hadley
 
 
 
 
I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
George S. Patton
 
 
 
 
The Army is the true nobility of our country.
Napoleon Bonaparte
 
 
 
 
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Alexander Hamilton
 
 
 
 
Who kept the faith and fought the fight; the glory theirs, the duty ours.
Wallace Bruce
 
 
 
 
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
John Dickinson
 
 
 
 
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy

Quotes November 26, 2021

“There is nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer.”
Gen. James H. Doolittle
 
 
 
 
“No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.”
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
 
 
 
 
“When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death — that is heroism.” — Robert Green Ingersoll
 
 
 
 
“Word to the Nation: Guard zealously your right to serve in the Armed Forces, for without them, there will be no other rights to guard.” — President John F. Kennedy
 
 
 
 
“America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.”
Paul Tsongas
 
 
 
 
“These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor — and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.”
Michael N. Castle
 
 
 
 
“True patriotism isn’t cheap. It’s about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.”
Robert Reich

Quotes November 05, 2021

“The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
Thucydides” – Dave Grossman, On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace
 
 
 
 
“These Marines left their home–all these great Americans left their home–signed up during a time of war and said, ‘I wanna do that.’ And we owe them so much gratitude. I am so, so proud. And they understand that in our profession there can be no second place. There can be no losing. Because the weight of our nation rests on their shoulders.”
Sergeant Major Bradley Kasal
 
 
 
 
Patriotism demands of us sustained sacrifice.
Chiang Kai-shek
 
 
 
 
It is the pride of my heart to have been one of the earliest adopted sons of America.
Marquis de Lafayette
 
 
 
 
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Woodrow Wilson
 
 
 
 
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Winston Churchill
 
 
 
 
Take patriotism away, and the nation’s soul has fled.
Edward Mark Deems
 
 
 
 
Military spouses find their strength along the way. Everyone began frightened of distance, deployment, and the unknown.
The Seasoned Spouse

Quotes October 15, 2021

“No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.”
Calvin Coolidge
 
 
 
 
“A leader leads by example not by force.”
Sun Tzu
 
 
 
 
“An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.”
Mao Zedong
 
 
 
 
“The army teaches boys to think like men.”
Elvis Presley
 
 
 
 
“Civilians enjoy their time because soldiers sacrifice their time.”
Amit Kalantri
 
 
 
 
Those who do not appreciate the soldiers and instead pompously talk about peace, should try to live a single day without the soldiers.”
Abhijit Naskar
 
 
 
 
“War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.”
Sebastian Junger
 
 
 
 
“I owe everything to the army.”
Norman Wisdom
 
 
 
 
“I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.”
Simon Raven
 
 
 
 
“It’s almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.”
John Dos Passos
 
 
 
 
“Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.”
George S. Patton
 
 
 
 
“Success in battle is not a function of how many show up, but who they are.”
Robert H. Barrow

Quotes October 01, 2021

“The definition of wisdom is remembering the experiences- not forgetting- but without the emotional charge”
Micah Fink
 
 
 
 
“In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life you don’t get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.”
Adam Driver
 
 
 
 
“In the military, if we don’t know something, we say we don’t know and proceed to shut up until we do. Some highly paid charlatans in the media think it’s absolutely fine to take a wild guess at the truth and then tell a couple of million people it’s cast-iron fact, just in case they might be right…I hope they’re proud of themselves, because they nearly broke my mom’s heart…. ”

“We know about bad guys, what they do, and often, who they are. The politicians have chosen to send us into battle, and that’s our trade. We do what’s necessary. And in my view, once those politicians have elected to send us out to do what 99.9 percent of the country would be terrified to undertake, they should get the hell out of the way and stay there.

This entire business of modern war crimes, as identified by the liberal wings of politics and the media, began in Iraq and has been running downhill ever since. Everyone’s got to have his little hands in it, blathering on about the public’s right to know.

Well, the view of most Navy SEALs, the public does not have that right to know, not if it means placing our lives in unnecessary peril because someone in Washington is driving himself mad worrying about the human rights of some cold-hearted terrorist fanatic who would kill us as soon as look at us, as well as any other American at whom he could point that wonky old AK of his.”
Marcus Luttrell, Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10

Quotes September 24, 2021

“There are no military solutions – dialogue and diplomacy are the only guarantee of lasting peace.”
Martin McGuinness

“Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”
Theodore Roosevelt