Military Quotes - Page 8

• Americans never quit.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Perseverance, Usa, America

  The New York Times (p. 13), August 9, 1928.

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• They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Death, Country, Sweet

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Gun, People

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.226, Algora Publishing

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• One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Support, Public Opinion

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• War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

  Bertrand Russell

  Peace, War, Fighting

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• There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

  William Halsey

  Men, History, Navy

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• Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

  Winston Churchill

  Being Strong, Veterans Day, Stay Strong

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.395, Da Capo Press

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• There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself.

  H. L. Mencken

  Records, Valuable, Nations

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• I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Love, Army, Fighting

  Letter to Sir William Spring, September 1643, in Thomas Carlyle 'Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches' (2nd ed., 1846)

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• Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Ruins, Subjects, Nations

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• Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

  Sigmund Freud

  Being Strong, Men, Ideas

  Sigmund Freud (2014). “Freud Verbatim”, p.38, The Overlook Press

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• Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.

  Lord Byron

  Tyranny, Worst

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• To ensure attaining an objective, one should have alternate objectives. An attack that converges on one point should threaten, and be able to diverge against another. Only by this flexibility of aim can strategy be attuned to the uncertainty of war.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  War, Should Have, Able

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• There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words "my country" may evoke.

  William Ralph Inge

  Country, Noble, May

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  It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Inspiring, Courage, Veterans Day

  Norman Schwarzkopf (2010). “It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography of General Norman Schwarzkopf”, p.13, Bantam

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• Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?

  George C. Wallace

  Funny, Air, Years

  "Absurdities, Scandals & Stupidities in Politics". Book by Hakeem Shittu and Callie Query, p. 106, 2006.

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• Human life is the only thing that takes care of itself.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Care, Life Is, Human Life

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• Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Believe, America, Principles

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.130, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• And you can win, though you face the worst, if you feel that you're going to do it.

  Edgar Guest

  Winning, Faces, Worst

  Edgar Guest (1916). “A Heap o' Living'”

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• Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.

  H. G. Wells

  Democracy, Election, Function

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• Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Acquiescence, Way

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798”, p.191, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Give obedience where 'tis truly owed.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Obedience

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English”, p.7392, BookCaps Study Guides

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• He who would save liberty must put his trust in democracy.

  Norman Thomas

  Democracy, Liberty

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• I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Believe, Democracy, Energy

  Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence”, Best Books

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

  Walt Whitman

  Giving, Democracy, Speak

  Walt Whitman (2015). “Leaves of Grass: Top Classic Poetry”, p.76, 谷月社

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