"I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia."
Read quote
3 likes
Military quotes
Military
4.2K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Military
Browse quotes that often appear alongside military — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Military quotes (page 48 of 213)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"I take care of military families. Their sacrifices are very real."
Read quote
3 likes
"America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal."
Read quote
3 likes
"The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches."
Read quote
3 likes
"Here the system is creating an industry around the drug issue when it does nothing to stop the corrupt military that moves the drugs, and the big banks that are all in cahoots with the President and the big shots in the Congress."
Read quote
3 likes
"The CIA was revealed to be spying in France, not for military purposes, but for corporate purposes. So this $30 billion spook agency is now at the disposal of these oligarchic corporate structures run by the 1%."
Read quote
3 likes
"You cannot use [nuclear weapons] to target civilians; you cannot use them against military targets if they have indiscriminate effects on civilians in addition to the attack on the military target."
Read quote
3 likes
"The budget for nuclear forces in the United States is on the order of $25 billion or so. That includes warheads, delivery systems, command and control; does not include environmental clean-up, which is another maybe $10 billion or so. So that's about 5% of the U.S. military budget."
Read quote
3 likes
"The mere absence of war is not peace."
Read quote
3 likes
"If the economy of today were operating close to capacity levels with little unemployment, or if a sudden change in our military requirements should cause a scramble for men and resources, then I would oppose tax reductions as irresponsible and inflationary; and I would not hesitate to recommend a tax increase if that were necessary."
Read quote
3 likes
"If the self-discipline of the free cannot match the iron discipline of the mailed fist, in economic, political, scientific, and all the other kinds of struggles, as well as the military, then the peril to freedom will continue to rise."
Read quote
3 likes
"In addition, the United States Delegation will suggest a series of steps to improve the United Nations machinery for the peaceful settlement of disputes... - for extending the rule of international law. For peace is not solely a matter of military or technical problems - it is primarily a problem of politics and people."
Read quote
3 likes
"You are not a man anymore. You are a soldier. Your comfort is of no importance and your life isn't of much importance. Most of your orders will be unpleasant, but that's not your business. They should've trained you for this, and not for flower-strewn streets. They should have built your soul with truth, not led along with lies."
Read quote
3 likes
"[Buckminster] Fuller's idea of progress is a very 1950s organization man out of the military sort of idea of progress. So as a result, you have something like: we've got bad weather in New York City; let's put a dome over it. And so I don't want to put a dome over Manhattan and I hope that nobody who ends up reading the book wants to do so as a result."
Read quote
3 likes
"Suppose everyone on our side felt that way?"
Read quote
3 likes
"Let someone else get killed!"
Read quote
3 likes
"To the extent that the (ISIS's) advance is a series of urban revolts against the government of PM Nouri al-Maliki, the US would end up bombing ordinary city folk. For the US to be bombing Sunni towns all these years later on behalf of Mr. al-Maliki would be to invite terrorism against the US."
Read quote
3 likes
"Mitt Romney, both did better with the military than Donald [Trump]."
Read quote
3 likes
"I am sorry to be so blunt, but I do not see much ambiguity here. [Barack] Obama was late to affirm the Egyptian revolution as a democratic movement, and even then he was eager to have installed those military leaders who were known for their practices of torture. And now he is quick to make allies with the Muslim Brotherhood for tactical reasons as well (though earlier that same administration stoked Islamophobic fear about that very political party)."
Read quote
3 likes
"I consider both the West Bank and Gaza to be colonised, even though Gaza is not occupied in the same way that the West Bank is. The Israeli government and military control all goods that pass in or out of that area, and they have restricted employment and building material that would allow Palestinians to rebuild homes and structures that were destroyed by bombardment."
Read quote
3 likes