2,366 Quotes About Military

In war trivial causes produce momentous events.

I just felt from personal observation that there is nothing more dislocated or alienated than a lifelong military person trying to cope in civilian life. It's like two completely separate planets.

No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.

Laws are inoperative in war

Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.

The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.

The combination of professionalism and technology may also result in narrow-minded specialization more suited to a debating society than to an organization whose task it is to cope with, and indeed live in, the dangerous and uncertain environment of war.

I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.

Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.