2,366 Quotes About Military

Just drive down that road, until you get blown up

The obvious thing for the cavalryman to do is to accept the fighting machine as a partner, and prepare to meet more fully the demands of future warfare.

Success demands a high level of logistical and organizational competence.

You shouldn't underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him.

War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.

There is only one sort of discipline - PERFECT DISCIPLINE. Men cannot have good battle discipline and poor administrative discipline.

The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible.

The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.

I had a question. "Why does the name Pearl Harbor sound so familiar?" The lieutenant colonel's eyes narrowed. "Pearl Harbor is the most famous U.S. military base in the world," he said crisply. "It's the only place on U.S. soil that has been attacked in a wars, since the Revolutionary War." None of this was ringing a bell, but you already know I'm totally uneducated. Gazzy leaned over to whisper, "It was a movie with Ben Affleck." Ah. Now I remembered.