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The [next] priority for change the first element of a new politics for the United States is in our policy toward the world. Too much and for too long, we have acted as if our great military might and wealth could bring about an American solution to every world problem.
Sep 10, 2025
I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy.
Get there first with the most men.
It's quite fun to fight them, you know. It's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right up front with you, I like brawling.
As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.
I think I have great knowledge of - for military, and I think I have better vision for Syria than a lot of the so-called great military geniuses that are saying how to fight the war with Syria. In my opinion, they're doing just the opposite. Are we going to start World War III over Syria? Are we going to be there for the next 40 years?
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace.
To imagine that it is possible to perform great military deeds without fighting is just empty dreams.
Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.
I've never seen a great military, political, or corporate leader who was not a great storyteller. Telling stories is a core competency in business, although it's one that we don't pay enough attention to.
Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.
Great military leaders have to sacrifice soldiers; great captains of industry have to sacrifice people. You can't only look after the poor, and the weak, and the disabled. You've got to do what's best for the community, and that often means sacrificing innocent people.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
Know the enemy and know yourself.
Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.
The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.
It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
In war, truth is the first casualty.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Get the hell out of my way!
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
On 9/11, 2001, the Navy stood at 316 ships. By 2008, after one of the great military buildups in American history, we were at 278 ships and had 49,000 fewer sailors.
Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes! Then fire low!
Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.
You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them. Actually, it’s a lot of fun to fight. You know, it’s a hell of a hoot. It’s fun to shoot some people. I’ll be right up front with you — I like brawling.
They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
It is not the critic who counts
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.