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Tag Name "Military" (2406)

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My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
W. E. B. Griffin
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We all have appointments with the past.
W. G. Sebald
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The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
Anatole France
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The military forces of the revolutionary adversary are diffuse. One is never sure whether one has destroyed them unless one is ready to destroy a large portion of the population, and this usually conflicts with the political aim of the war and hence also violates a fundamental Clausewitzian principle.
Anatol Rapoport
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Military surge in Afghanistan to eliminate the Taliban.
Barack Obama
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Military intervention to maintain the global status quo will become a constant feature of international relations, whether this is justified in terms of fighting drugs, fighting terrorism, containing 'rogue states', opposing 'Islamic fundamentalism', or containing China.
Walden Bello
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When I talk with women who have had wonderful experiences in the military it's because their commanders treated them with respect and dignity and gave them equality with their peers that was unparalleled in their lives.
Amy Ziering
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Who kept the faith and fought the fight The glory theirs, the duty ours.
Wallace Bruce Matthews Carruthers
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I want to make sure that the Coast Guard people in Vietnam know that I am hearing about them often and that I am pleased with what I hear.
Wallace M. Greene
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We have crushed the whole force which dared to venture there. They were on the runway at Saddam International Airport. That force was crushed
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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Having strength, having a strong military, is the ally of peace. Exercising that strength through military action is not always necessary if you have the confidence and clarity of vision and purpose which America demands.
Mitt Romney
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Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts.
Walt Kelly
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I speak the password primeval I give the sign of democracy.
Walt Whitman
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Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
Walter Bagehot
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In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.
Walter Bagehot
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Backs dialogue for solving disputes and not military power and threats.
Amr Moussa
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It is my view that there is no sensible military use for nuclear weapons, whether strategic weapons, tactical weapons, theatre weapons, weapons at sea or weapons in space.
Noel Gayler
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What chiefly governs the [U.S.] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is simply a receptacle for wasteful expenditure, just as a city dump is the receptacle for the refuse of a city.
Walter Karp
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The military budget is simply an enormous pork barrel of special privilege, the privileges taking the form of windfall profits, of no-risk profits and, most importantly, of enormous outlays of capital supplied by the Pentagon to arms contractors.
Walter Karp
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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter Lippmann
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PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.
Ambrose Bierce
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REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.
Ambrose Bierce
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Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him. In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference
Ambrose Bierce
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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
Ambrose Bierce
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