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The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
It is not possible . . . to concentrate enough military planes with military loads over a modern city to destroy that city.
For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.
I like to say I bring the perspective of a kid from Bowmanville... but I understand military service and uniformed service.
I do not think witchcraft is a religion, and I do not think it is in any way appropriate for the US military to promote it.
Actually, I have a lot of hobbies, but I've kept up with model-building the longest. In particular, I love military models.
Peace through strength works. We've got the greatest military in the world. I want them to dominate any potential conflict.
Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.
With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.
Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.
The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.
The Canadian Prime Minister said Canada would lend the U.S. its full military support. You know what that means: Both tanks.
Once the war against Saddam begins, we expect every American to support our military, and if they can't do that, to shut up.
The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world.
Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.
I cannot approve of your method of operation, you proceed like a bewildered idiot, taking not the least notice of my orders.
They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time.
At the same time, we're going to take care of our military and we're going to take care of our great, great, great veterans.
I don't think we need to have an either/or debate about the use of military force - I think you can be both tough and smart.
The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex.
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future
But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.
If the military is to show the capabilities that we demand and expect of it, then the defense budget has to continue to rise.
A people who mean to be free must be prepared to meet danger in person, and not rely upon the fallacious protection of armies
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.
America has the greatest people on earth in our military, but they don't have the right equipment and their equipment is old.
The strength of our economy allows us to maintain the mightiest military in the world, effectively enforcing a Pax Americana.
The more a country makes military weapons, the more insecure it becomes: if you have weapons, you become a target for attack.
[Michael Flynn is not] the kind of person who is going to be more buttoned-up kind of military figure and that partisan tone.
In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.
You should never take military intervention off the table. When you do so, you give an out to a rogue nation or rogue actors.
I believe we've... we've worked very hard with the Iraqis to build a better place ever since the fall of Saddam's government.
American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Yeah, September 11 happened and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
We're working with NATO, the longest military alliance in the history of the world, to really turn our attention to terrorism.
Those single-track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters.
Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world.
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
Anytime it was advertised that I was going to be at a particular place, the radicals would be there, the cameras with TV news.
From their maneuvers and their terrific speed I am certain their flight performance was greater than any aircraft known today.
I think it's OK to talk about your military service, but there's a fine line between, you know, too much and just about right.
Obviously, I come out of the military - I know the amazing work of the men and women in uniform and the work that they can do.
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
As an already high-demand, low-density military asset, we cannot afford to lose the JSTARS's BMC2/ISR unparalleled capability.