2,366 Quotes About Military

  • Author Michael Dukakis
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    I do not believe in people owning guns. Guns should be owned only by the police and military. I am going to do everything I can to disarm this state.

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  • Author Mitch Daniels
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    If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'

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  • Author Peter Drucker
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    We have tried to substitute mass for purpose. We have tried to regain military potency of defense by making it gigantic, unwieldy, complex. It never works.

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  • Author Peter Drucker
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    The most important decisions in organizations are people decisions, and yet only the military, and only recently, has begun to ask, "If we assign this general to lead this base, what do we expect him to accomplish?"

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  • Author Tom Delay
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    Without any coherent international blueprint the White House has bombed its way around the globe, while dropping troops far and wide for ill-defined peacemaking duties. This policy has gutted the American military which now must be rebuilt.

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  • Author Tom Delay
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    It's very simple. The president is not supported by the House, and the military is supported by the House.

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  • Author William O. Douglas
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    The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.

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  • Author Barbara Ehrenreich
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    As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.

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