Famous Quotes & Sayings

Debby Ryan

I went to school on a military base in Germany. I got a lot of my clothes at the army surplus store.

Albert Bushnell Hart

Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.

Nick Lowe

Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine.

George Carey

But, as you have intimated, I am among those who would be very wary of any military action in the light of Saddam Hussein's willingness to allow the weapons inspectors to go in.

Saddam Hussein

The participation if women in some armies in the world is in reality only symbolic. The talk about the role of Zionist women in fighting with the combat units of the enemy in the war of 5 June 1967 was intended more as propaganda than anything real or substantial. It was calculated to intensify and compound the adverse psychological effects of the war by exploiting the backward outlook of large sections of Arab society and their role in the community. The intention was to achieve adverse psychological effects by saying to Arabs that they were defeated, in 1967, by women.

Ronald Reagan

Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used.

Wendell Willkie

Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

Willie Nelson

A lot of guns there's no need for civilians to own those those are for military

William O. Douglas

Those in power are blind devotees to private enterprise. They accept that degree of socialism implicit in the vast subsidies to the military-industrial-complex, but not that type of socialism which maintains public projects for the disemployed and the unemployed alike.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Allen Ginsberg

What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?

Allan Massie

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

Allan Massie

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.

Allan Lichtman

Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war.

Alistair Cooke

These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges

Alistair Cooke

More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes memorable even in the tape-recorded reminiscenses of old champs, and which - in the hands of someone like Herb Wind - can become a piece of war correspondence as artfully controlled as Alan Morehead's account of Gallipoli.

Alistair Cooke

Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself.

Alison McGhee

Wouldn't want to miss a war, would I?

Ogden Nash

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Thomas Hearns

Ray Leonard was more of a favorite than Thomas Hearns that night.

Mario Van Peebles

There is definitely places in America where, if you're born into that environment, your chances of getting out are really, really limited.

Christian Schindler

The order backlog is very strong, particularly in North America and Europe.

Roger Donaldson

The optimism in the film is really based on my own experience of coming to America,

Kevin Barry

There is nothing like seeing the Irish flag during the parade fly with the American flag at the Liberty Pole. It's a celebration of all immigrants that have come to America ... for all immigrant people and the success in the U.S.

Mitch Landrieu

There is nothing here that's broken that can't be fixed, but it won't happen on its own. It's going to require a huge lift by the entire country of the United States of America and people on the ground taking personal responsibility for themselves. You cannot take it as a fait accompli that the city's going to come back.

Edward Greenspan

There is nothing contentious about obtaining court approval for a trip outside of North America. Court approval for international travel is normal and is not bothersome or any burden to Mr. Black or his counsel.

Dixon Osburn

There is no reason lesbian, gay and bisexual Americans should be prohibited from serving our country. The men and women in this lawsuit represent the best of our armed forces. They are patriotic, dedicated veterans. America should welcome their contributions and honor their commitment to our country.