Military quotations

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◆ Never run after a man or a bus, there's always another one in five minutes.

- Cherry Adair99

◆ As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will put up with all sorts of tyranny, poverty, and painful treatment if they're convinced that they'll eventually escape to some resort in the sky where lifeguards are superfluous and the pool never closes. Moreover, the faithful are usually willing to risk their skins in whatever military adventure their government may currently be promoting.

- Tom Robbins99

◆ We're like America's little pit bull. They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they let it out to attack somebody.

- Evan Wright99

◆ Agatha loved military men. Actually, she loved men in uniform. And my bowling league outfit used to drive her wild with desire.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!

- Albert Einstein99

◆ Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.

- Leonora Carrington99

◆ War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

- Sebastian Junger99

◆ He who whets his steel, whets his courage

- Steven Pressfield99

◆ I will never quit. My nation expects me to be physically harder and mentally stronger than my enemies. If knocked down i will get back up, every time. I will draw on every remaining ounce of strength to protect my enemies and to accomplish our mission. I am never out of the fight.

- Marcus Luttrell99

◆ -You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!

- Joseph Heller99

◆ Marines I see as two breeds, Rottweilers or Dobermans, because Marines come in two varieties, big and mean, or skinny and mean. They're aggressive on the attack and tenacious on defense. They've got really short hair and they always go for the throat.

- R. Adm. Jay Stark99

◆ America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.

- Sarah Palin99

◆ Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others.

- Simone Weil99

◆ America without her Soldiers would be like God without His angels.

- Claudia Pemberton99

◆ The Japanese fought to win - it was a savage, brutal, inhumane, exhausting and dirty business. Our commanders knew that if we were to win and survive, we must be trained realistically for it whether we liked it or not. In the post-war years, the U.S. Marine Corps came in for a great deal of undeserved criticism in my opinion, from well-meaning persons who did not comprehend the magnitude of stress and horror that combat can be. The technology that developed the rifle barrel, the machine gun and high explosive shells has turned war into prolonged, subhuman slaughter. Men must be trained realistically if they are to survive it without breaking, mentally and physically.

- Eugene B. Sledge99