Military Quotes

I suddenly felt like the Grinch feels when he discovers what Chrismas is all about. For the first time in a long time, I felt like I had a purpose being in the Navy. It wasn't about money and rank or prestige. It was about raising the flag. We do what we do because no one else can or will do it. We fight so others can sleep at night. And I had forgotten that.

Timothy Ciciora

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

Claudia Pemberton

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

Thomas Jefferson

The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.

Charles Dickens

To have the opportunity to know your parents is to have the opportunity to truly know yourself.

Amy Denise

Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.

Steve Sheinkin

What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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

Robert Jordan

There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.

Sir Winston Churchill

Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Making the world safe for hypocrisy.

Thomas Wolfe

Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.

G. K. Chesterton

O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.

Walt Whitman

We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.

Sir Humphrey Gilbert

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

Mao Zedong

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.

C. Wright Mills

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

Joseph Conrad

So, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.

Tacitus