Adam Smith Quotes, Military Quotes, Character Quotes

In a militia, the character of the laborer, artificer, or tradesman, predominates over that of the soldier: in a standing army, that of the soldier predominates over every other character.

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Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.

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We have room for but one loyalty, loyalty to the United States.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Loyalty Quotes , Military Quotes

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Crazy Quotes , Military Quotes

Let's be grateful for what we have. Let's be mindful of those who have less. Let's appreciate those who hold a special place in our lives, and make sure they know it. And let's think about those who can't spend the holiday with their loved ones - especially the members of our military serving overseas.

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When it comes to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, I will take no options off the table. ... That includes all elements of American power: a political effort aimed at isolating Iran, a diplomatic effort to sustain our coalition and ensure that the Iranian program is monitored, an economic effort that imposes crippling sanctions and, yes, a military effort to be prepared for any contingency.

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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

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Tags : A. Whitney Brown Quotes , Funny Quotes , Military Quotes

Power depends ultimately on physical force. By teaching people that violence is wrong (except, of course, when the system itself uses violence via the police or the military), the system maintains its monopoly on physical force and thus keeps all power in its own hands.

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Tags : Theodore Kaczynski Quotes , Military Quotes , Teaching Quotes

The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Military Quotes , Passion Quotes

I have made no secret, either privately or publicly, of any sense of outrage over officially enforced military and war service. I regard it as a duty of conscience to fight against such barbarous enslavement of the individual with every means available.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Military Quotes , War Quotes

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."

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There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Military Quotes , Size Quotes

Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources far greater that what we need in the attack.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Military Quotes , Communication Quotes

Even if only 2 percent of those assigned to perform military service should announce their refusal to fight, governments would be powerless, they would not dare send such a large number of people to jail.

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A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Military Quotes , History Quotes

The Guns, Thank God, The Guns.

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Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.

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I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.

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There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so'

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Military Quotes , Issues Quotes

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Peace Quotes , Military Quotes