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We are United States Marines, and for two and a quarter centuries we have defined the standards of courage, esprit, and military prowess.
Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.
You can't destroy the polish national-consciousness or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves
I proposed a law that every country where the U.S. has a military base - those people should be allowed to vote in the American election.
Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.
The most important thing in fighting was shooting, next the various tactics in coming into a fight and last of all flying ability itself.
Who is it that said that 'you have not converted a man because you have silenced him?' This is true of the use of the military on people.
I have served in the Congress during two wars and I have seen the impacts on our military, on their families and on our national deficit.
The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
The infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad... Be assured, Baghdad is safe, protected. Iraqis are heroes.
We have severely underestimated the Russians, the extent of the country and the treachery of the climate. This is the revenge of reality.
The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over today and the army tomorrow.
Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.
A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him
The reality is that China is a much stronger power today, because the economic dimension has been added to the military and strategic one.
Air control can be established by superiority in numbers, by better employment, by better equipment, or by a combination of these factors.
I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated.
Our military and the strength of our military and the strengthening of our military is a number one priority for the Trump administration.
In the whole history of this country, we have probably won more friends from the power of our example than from the power of our military.
Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
Computers get better faster than anything else ever. A child's PlayStation today is more powerful than a military supercomputer from 1996.
Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
I want to make sure that the Coast Guard people in Vietnam know that I am hearing about them often and that I am pleased with what I hear.
Mistaking Palestinian military weakness for moral innocence seems to further amplify the inattention of journalists to the culture of lies.
(President Nixon,) in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as "commander-in-chief", to use military forces to keep himself in power.
The Americans, they always depend on a method what I call ... stupid, silly. All I ask is check yourself. Do not in fact repeat their lies.
There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.
You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.
Ironically, the possibility that the president dodged his military service has increased his approval ratings with Democrats by 80 percent.
There are plenty of people in the in the military and high ranking generals that do not feel that they have been optimized or listened to .
Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.
I'm not a policy and a strategy guy. I'm - you know, the military basically supports what the president wants, the decisions that he makes.
The value of the space program is beyond science, it's beyond military; it's a cultural shift in how we think of our place in the universe.
Duarte is a moderate when it comes to civilian control of the military and curbing death squads. On economics, the man is almost a Marxist.
And after September the 11th, the United States Congress also granted me additional authority to use military force against al Qaeda. . . .
Ah, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There's only one way to shut them up - cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go and get me one!
I don't fly any awards at the house. Any award you get is usually for something you've done in the past. And I like to keep looking forward.
He called for military supremacy, no welfare and cultural rebirth. It was a nice speech, but it sounded a lot better in its original German.
My rule is: If you meet the weakest vessel, attack. If it is a vessel equal to yours, attack. And if it is stronger than yours, also attack.
And we will win the war, and there will be costs. But the military folks understand that, and so do I, and so does the Secretary of Defense.
When I retired out of the military, I registered myself as a Republican because my views and perspectives were more in line with that party.
The U.K.-U.S. defense relationship is the broadest, deepest and most advanced of any two countries, sharing military hardware and expertise.
One year of the world’s military spending equals 700 years of the U.N. budget and equals 2,928 years of the U.N. budget allocated for women.
No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account.
Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.
We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds.
Helmut Lang does a lot of very military-influenced things. You have to find the designer that suits your body the best, and he works for me.
You don't suppose that the photo ops and the military convoys arriving at the same time were a coincidence, do you, Wolf ... Situation Room.
Courage! Do not fall back; in a little the place will be yours. Watch! When the wind blows my banner against the bulwark, you shall take it.