Military Quotes - Page 9

• A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Uplifting, Spiritual

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• Ideals are the world's masters.

  J. G. Holland

  Reality, World, Masters

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• In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, but westward, look, the land is bright.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Land, Sun, Looks

  "Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth" l. 15 (1855)

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• Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit -
  It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.

  Robert W. Service

  Grit, Quitting, Chin Up

  ROBERT W. SERVICE (1917). “rhymes of rolling stone”

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• Learn to obey before you command.

  Solon

  Education, Learning, Total War

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• O America! Because you build for mankind I build for you.

  Walt Whitman

  America, Mankind

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.197, NYU Press

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• Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.

  John Ray

  Hammers, Praying

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• The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.

  Seneca the Younger

  Soldier, And Love, Flags

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• The man-at-arms is the only man.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Men, Arms, He Man

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• The right is more precious than peace.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Small Nations

  Address to Joint Session of Congress asking for declaration of war, 2 Apr. 1917

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• The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Names, Honor, Duty

  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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• Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!

  Walt Whitman

  War, Democracy, Thunder

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.465, Simon and Schuster

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• To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.

  Henry Vaughan

  Friendship, Country, True Friend

  Henry Vaughan (1976). “The complete poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• Valor is the soldier's adornment.

  Livy

  Soldier, Valor, Adornment

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• Victory is a thing of the will.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Victory

  "The Guns of August". Book by Barbara Tuchman, 1962.

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• What bosom beast not in his country's cause?

  Alexander Pope

  Country, Causes, Beast

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• When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Youth, Lows, Duty

  "Voluntaries" no. 3 (1867)

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• Who hath not served can not command.

  John Florio

  Command, Can Not

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• There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war, it's to be prepared for peace.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Forgotten, Be Prepared

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces the conclusion that the indirect is by far the most hopeful and economic form of strategy.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Hopeful, Direct Approach, Campaigns

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• Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Children, War

  Speech in Washington, 16 Apr. 1953, in Public Papers of Presidents 1953 (1960) p. 182

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• Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

  Rebecca West

  Funny, Real, War

  Quoted in Jonathon Green, Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1982)

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• Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Opponents, Resistance, Pressure

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• Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed.

  Norman Cota

  Funny, Letting Go, Beach

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• The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  War, Mean, Purpose

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