“ If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe. ”
- Lord Salisbury- Copy
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“ Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars. ”
- George Catlett Marshall Jr.- Copy
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“ War is too important a matter to be left to the military. ”
- Georges Clemenceau- Copy
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“ A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale. ”
- Jalal Talabani- Copy
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“ Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence. ”
- Dora Russell- Copy
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“ I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women. ”
- Robert Menzies- Copy
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“ We 'll have a swashing and a martial outside, As many other mannish cowards have. - As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 3. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ I have sat on the army, navy, and ordnance committees, and I see no limit to the increase of our armaments under the existing system. ”
- Richard Cobden- Copy
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“ We'll have a swashing and a martial outside, as many other mannish cowards have. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. ”
- Georges Clemenceau- Copy
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“ I went to Norwich University in Vermont, a private military college - the oldest private military college in the country, thank you very much! - on a hockey scholarship and studied English. ”
- David Hunt- Copy
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“ 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. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
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“ It is no longer a question of controlling a military-industrial complex, but rather, of keeping the United States from becoming a totally military culture. ”
- Jerome Wiesner- Copy
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“ In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself… ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood. ”
- Sean O’Casey- Copy
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“ The American Army has supplied, assigned a very capable man to me, to help me, bring me to military justice. I don't think I need no civilians. All I want to do is clear myself with the American Army. ”
- Robert Jenkins- Copy
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“ When force is necessary, it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, the blow with an agreement. ”
- Leon Trotsky- Copy
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“ Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology. ”
- Dame Rebecca West- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ And now, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career, and just fade away…an old soldier who tried to do his duty, as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good-bye. ”
- General Douglas McArthur- Copy
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“ My soldiers ask of me, why surrender a military advantage in the field … I could not answer. ”
- General Douglas McArthur- Copy
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“ Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. ”
- Dean Acheson- Copy
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“ The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft, we can all declare we are homosexual instead of running off to Canada. ”
- Lorne Bloch- Copy
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