Military Force Quotes - Page 5

• The application of military force, or the prospect of such application, inhibits terrorist violence.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Military, Violence, Force

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• Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Air, Force

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you don’t have a good idea of what to do next after using military force, then don’t use it in the first place.

  Ted Lieu

  Military, Ideas, Next

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• My advice is: 1. Be judicious in the use of military force. 2. When military force is required, use overwhelming force. 3. Do not micromanage military leaders. 4. Ensure your battle plans will win the conflict and win the peace.

  Steve Stivers

  Military, Winning, Leader

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• For, once man is declared 'the measure of all things,' there is no longer a true, or a good, or a just, but only opinions of equal validity whose clash can be settled only by political or military force; and each force in turn enthrones in its hour of triumph a true, a good, and a just which will endure just as long as itself.

  Bertrand de Jouvenel

  Military, Men, Long

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• Deterrence failed completely as a guide in setting rational limits on the size and composition of military forces, spurring an insatiable arms race with a reckless proliferation of the most destructive power ever unleashed, tailored for delivery by a vast array of vehicles to a stupefying array of targets.

  George Lee Butler

  Military, Race, Target

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• Our country regularly uses military force, but only a fraction of Americans serve in the military. This means fewer and fewer people have a direct link to the military, and yet it remains as important as ever that we have a rich understanding of what we are doing as a country.

  Phil Klay

  Country, Military, Mean

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• We have an authorization to use military force against terrorists. We passed it after 9/11.

  Hillary Clinton

  Military, Use, Force

  "The CBS Democratic debate transcript, annotated". www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2015.

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• We need to destroy ISIS in the caliphate. That's - that should be our objective. The refugee issue will be solved if we destroy ISIS there, which means we need to have a no-fly zone, safe zones there for refugees and to build a military force.

  Jeb Bush

  Military, Mean, Isis

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.

  James Madison

  Military, War, Long

  James Madison (1787). “The Writings of James Madison: 1787. The journal of the Constitutional convention”, p.317

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• Resort to military force is a first sure sign that we are giving up the struggle for the democratic way of life, and that the Old World has conquered morally as well as geographically succeeding in imposing upon us its ideals and methods.

  John Dewey

  Giving Up, Military, Struggle

  John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Ethics, logic, psychology”, p.365, Indiana University Press

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• We owe our troops the opportunity to serve in the best-planned, best-equipped, and best-led military force in the world, and we owe them the peace of mind that comes from knowing that they and their families will be taken care of if they sacrifice life, limb or the ability to sleep without war's nightmares. We owe them not just thanks and best wishes, but action, and action in our nation's capital.

  John F. Kerry

  Military, War, Taken

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• What nearly all suicide terrorist attacks have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from territory that the terrorists consider to be their homeland.

  Robert Pape

  Suicide, Military, Goal

  Robert Pape (2005). “Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism”, p.4, Random House

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• A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.

  James Madison

  Military, Long, Liberty

  James Madison (1787). “The Writings of James Madison: 1787. The journal of the Constitutional convention”, p.317

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• [I]t's up to Republicans to expose the bureaucracies and criticize the orthodoxies - to ask why visas for travel to the United States are still being issued in West Africa and why American military forces are being deployed there without a workable plan or intelligible purpose, why CDC spending priorities are so skewed and CDC management so weak, and why here at home routine police powers aren't being used and routine public health measures aren't being implemented.

  William Kristol

  Military, Home, Priorities

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• In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces and thereby play a more active role in the keeping and restoration of peace in various parts of the world.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Military, Japan, Years

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• America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.

  Lincoln Chafee

  Military, War, America

  Lincoln Chafee (2010). “Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President”, p.9, Macmillan

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• With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist.

  Gunther Blumentritt

  Disappointment, Military, War

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