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  • I think the key anecdote in the book is when Colin [Powell] and I were discussing Iraq. Colin was upstairs in the Treaty Room, in the residence. And he talks about his concerns about the use of military in Iraq. And I said I felt the same concerns, but it might be that we have to use it. In which case, he said, "I support you."
  • 3 years ago



    Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Military Quotes , Book Quotes
  • The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and comfortably housed. Thus they will become double agents and available for our service. It is through the information brought by the double agent that we are able to acquire and employ local and inward spies. It is owing to his information, again, that we can cause the doomed spy to carry false tidings to the enemy.
  • 3 years ago



    Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , Military Quotes
  • Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army.
  • 3 years ago



    Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Military Quotes , Army Quotes
  • In actual fact the pacifistic-humane idea is perfectly all right perhaps when the highest type of man has previously conquered and subjected the world to an extent that makes him the sole ruler of this earth… Therefore, first struggle and then perhaps pacifism.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Military Quotes , Struggle Quotes
  • The Israeli military plays more than a critical role in defending the citizens of the Jewish state. It also plays an important social, scientific and psychological role in preparing its young citizens for the challenging task of being Israelis in a difficult world.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Alan Dershowitz Quotes , Military Quotes , Play Quotes
  • When any kind of military action is popular it's because either there's been a very clear, direct threat to us - 9/11 - or an administration uses various hooks to suggest that American interests were directly threatened - like in Panama or Grenada. And sometimes, those hooks are more persuasive than others, but typically, they're not put before Congress.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Military Quotes , Hook Quotes
  • I hold it to be of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words towards any one, for neither the one nor the other in any way diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious, and the other increases his hatred of you, and makes him more persevering in his efforts to injure you
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Military Quotes , Men Quotes