Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Reagan

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Ronald Reagan

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

Ronald Reagan

Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.

Zell Miller

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

Henry George Bohn

A soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of the general.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.

Moby

I believe that the role of limited government should be looking after the needs of veterans, the elderly, children and those institutions that improve the quality of life for struggling families - I don't believe that government should bend to serve the needs of subsidized multi-national corporations and entitled billionaires.

Alex Jones

In a dictatorship there is no choice, the elections are controlled, the police are the military, fear equals control, speech is suppressed, the economy is looted, the people are slaves.

Janet Reno

There are obviously a number of instances with respect to military personnel, with respect to Native American claims, with respect to Medicare,

Robert E. Lee

All military history records the triumphs of discipline and courage far more frequently than numbers and resources.

Robert Crippen

I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us.

Richard Perle

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Richard Perle

Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse after the first whiff of gunpowder.

Richard Holbrooke

I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just mean military, persevering against any challenge. I still believe in that.

Russell Baker

Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old range when there's combat to be done.

Ruben Blades

So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.

Spike Lee

I wouldn't put anything past the U.S. government when it comes to people of color. There is too much history ... going back to when the U.S. army gave smallpox-infested blankets to Native Americans.

Yubaraj Sangroula

He can use the time to make covert manipulations. He can try to divide the parties, he can even use the army again.

Frank Pallone

What we would like to do, ... is go through Congress or the Government Accountability Office and make them set forth some kinds of benchmarks so this isn't open to the Army just writing a perfunctory letter saying we meet all the conditions.

Greg Sprink

Having Matt come back for the Army game meant so much to the rest of us. To see how much Matt cares about Navy basketball and how badly he wants to be there for the team ... it's just very uplifting.

Jennifer Granholm

Her greatness lay in doing what everybody could do but doesn't. She was unexpected. She was untitled. . . . (She was) an improbable warrior that was leading an unlikely army of waitresses and street sweepers and shopkeepers and auto mechanics.

Denis MacShane

He seemed young and decisive, able to make the shift from guerrilla leader to political leader, rather like Michael Collins of the Irish Republican Army did in the early 1920s.

Wesley Clark

He should be fired. When someone makes comments like that, that are so obviously racially prejudiced. We don't tolerate that in modern American society. We certainly didn't tolerate it in the U.S. Army and we don't tolerate it here. It's wrong.

Hideo Kojima

Hollywood continues to present the U.S. Army as being the good guys, always defeating the aliens or foreigners.

Jane Harman

It clearly is not a pretty picture. I commend the Army for taking a hard, comprehensive look at how soldiers behave towards each other.