Military Quotes
Famous Quotes & Quotations About The Military:
A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow.
~ General George S. Patton.
A Purple Heart just proves that were you smart enough to think of a plan, stupid enough to try it, and lucky enough to survive.
~ Author Unknown.
Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys with M16s going, "Who'd you call a faggot?"
~ Jon Stewart.
You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
~ Barry Goldwater.
You, you, and you: Panic. The rest of you, come with me.
~ US Marine Corp. Gunnery Sgt.
A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons.
~ Admiral David D. Porter, US Navy.
A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit.
~ The US Army's magazine of preventive maintenance.
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living.
~ John F. Kennedy.
Any ship can be a minesweeper ... once.
~ Admiral Hornblower.
Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.
~ Josephus Daniels.
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
~ Thucydides.
Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.
~ Blake Clark.
Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
~ David Hackworth.
Cluster bombing from B-52s is very, very accurate. The bombs always hit the ground.
~ US Air Force.
Coffee tastes better if the latrines are dug downstream from an encampment.
~ US Army Field Regulations, 1861.
Combat will occur on the ground between two adjoining maps.
~ Author Unknown.
Confusion in battle is what pain is in childbirth - the natural order of things.
~ General Maurice Tugwell.
Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.
~ Will Rogers.
Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.
~ Helvetius.
Don't draw fire; it irritates the people around you.
~ Author Unknown.
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