2,366 Quotes About Military

  • Author Buzz Aldrin
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    I really hate to be put in the position of trying to justify something, a decision that was made. I'm a military guy: when a decision is made, I go along with it, whatever the manufactured controversy and criticism.

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  • Author Catherine Asaro
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    Jack Campbell's dazzling new series is military science fiction at its best. Not only does he tell a yarn of great adventure and action, but he also develops the characters with satisfying depth. I thoroughly enjoyed this rip-roaring read, and I can hardly wait for the next book.

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  • Author David Ayer
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    I'm a Veteran. I was in the Navy, in the submarine corps. I come from a military family. Both of my grandparents were in World War II and retired as officers. One fought in the Pacific and one fought in Europe. The whole family was in the war. I grew up exposed to it and hearing the stories, but the stories I heard weren't kind of the whole "Rah, rah, rah! We saved the world!" They were about the personal price and the emotional price.

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  • Author Douglas Adams
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    How do you feel?" he asked him. "Like a military academy," said Arthur. "Bits of me keep on passing out.

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  • Author Edward Abbey
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    Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.

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  • Author Edward Abbey
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    In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.

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  • Author Edward Abbey
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    The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they have always performed with brilliance and elan.

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  • Author Edward Abbey
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    Let us hope our weapons are never needed -but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny. If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government - and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws.

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