Military Quotes - Page 5

• No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Business, War

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• The nearer the cutting off point lies to the main force of the enemy, the more immediate the effect; whereas the closer to the strategic base it takes place, the greater the effect.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Lying, Cutting, Enemy

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• There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Firmness, Certain

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• To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Soldier, Nations

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• it so often happens that, when men are convinced that they have to die, a desire to bear themselves well and to leave life's stage with dignity conquers all other sensations.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Desire, Bears

  Sir Winston Churchill (1956). “Savrola: a tale of the revolution in Laurania”, Random

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• We have room for but one loyalty, loyalty to the United States.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Loyalty, United States, Rooms

  1919 Message to theAmerican Defense Society two days before his death, 3 Jan.

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• We have room in this country for but one flag, the Stars and Stripes!

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Stars, Stripes

  Theodore Roosevelt (1925). “The foes of our own household; The great adventure; Letters to his children”

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• In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the citizens of a free republic may be prompted by a principle of duty; the subjects, or at least the nobles, of a monarchy, are animated by a sentiment of honor; but the timid and luxurious inhabitants of a declining empire must be allured into the service by the hopes of profit, or compelled by the dread of punishment.

  Edward Gibbon

  War, Army, Punishment

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “EDWARD GIBBON Premium Collection: Historiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters: Including "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.731, e-artnow

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• Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

  Colin Powell

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.52, Ballantine Books

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• To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

  George Washington

  Inspirational, Leadership, Motivation

  1790 First Annual Address, 8 Jan.

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  A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

  Colin Powell

  Motivational, Dream, Determination

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• The Army of Northern Virginia was never defeated. It merely wore itself out whipping the enemy.

  Jubal Early

  War, Army, America

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• I wanted the American public to know that not everyone in Iraq and Afghanistan were targets that needed to be neutralized, but rather people who were struggling to live in the pressure cooker environment of what we call asymmetric warfare.

  Chelsea Manning

  War, Struggle, Iraq

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• Leadership is the sum of those qualities of intellect, human understanding, and moral character that enables a person to inspire and control a group of people successfully.

  John A. Lejeune

  Leadership, Character, Command And Control

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• I want to go where the guns are!

  Chesty Puller

  Gun, Marine Corps, Navy

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• In order to assure an adequate national defense, it is necessary - and sufficient - to be in a position in case of war to conquer the command of the air.

  Giulio Douhet

  War, Air, Order

  General Giulio Douhet (2014). “Command Of The Air”, p.51, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Well, it is all over now. The battle is lost, and many of us are prisoners, many are dead, many wounded, bleeding and dying. Your Soldier lives and mourns and but for you, my darling, he would rather, a million times rather, be back there with his dead, to sleep for all time in an unknown grave.

  George Pickett

  War, Sleep, Soldier

  George Edward Pickett, La Salle Corbell Pickett (1913). “The Heart of a Soldier: As Revealed in the Intimate Letters of Genl. George E. Pickett”

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• The most important thing in fighting was shooting, next the various tactics in coming into a fight and last of all flying ability itself.

  Billy Bishop

  Fighting, Flying, Important

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks.

  Alexander Suvorov

  Fighting, Words Of Wisdom, Enemy

  "Suvorov". Book by K. Ossipov, 1945.

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• In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  War, Marine Corps, Soldier

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• We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.

  Nathanael Greene

  Art, War, Fighting

  Nathanael Greene, Richard K. Showman (2005). “The Papers of General Nathanael Greene”, University of North Carolina Press

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• The Marine Corps ... took a boy and made him a man.

  Ed Bearss

  Marine, Men, Boys

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• Success in battle is not a function of how many show up, but who they are.

  Robert H. Barrow

  Inspirational, Success, War

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• The Marine Corps is proud of the fact that it is a force of combined arms, and it jealously guards the integrity of its air-ground team.

  Keith B. McCutcheon

  Integrity, Team, Patriotic

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• I should deem a man-of-war incomplete without a body of Marines...imbued with that esprit that has so long characterized the "Old Corps."

  Joshua R. Sands

  War, Marine, Army

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