Military proverbs

Page 4

◆ People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

- George Orwell99

◆ A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

- Martin Luther King Jr.99

◆ We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.

- Winston Churchill99

◆ Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

- Douglas MacArthur99

◆ Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.

- Heraclitus99

◆ Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.

- George S. Patton Jr.99

◆ She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted in his dress blues.

- Nicholas Sparks99

◆ The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one's country

- George S. Patton Jr.99

◆ The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

- Colin Powell99

◆ One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.

- Robert Jordan99

◆ Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

- Winston Churchill99

◆ The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.

- Terry Pratchett99

◆ ...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability.

- George S. Patton Jr.99

◆ It is fatal to enter an war without the will to win it.

- Douglas MacArthur99

◆ War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

- Nathan Bedford Forrest99