Quotes by Military Officers - Page 4

Have you ever dealt with people who have lost everything in just an hour? In the morning you leave the house where your wife, your children, your parents live. You return and you find a smoking pit. Then something happens to you - to a certain extent you stop being human. You do not need any glory, money anymore; revenge becomes your only joy. And because you no longer cling to life, death avoids you, the bullets fly past. You become a wolf.
Russian General Aleksander Lebed
I would be willing, yes glad, to see a battle every day during my life
George Armstrong Custer
Warfare is now an interlocking system of actions—political, economic,psychological, military—that aims at the overthrow of the establishedauthority in a country and its replacement by another regime.
Roger Trinquier
One day my grandson said to me, grandpa were you a hero in the war? And i said to him no I'm not a hero, but I have served in a company full of them.
Dick Winters
In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.
Erwin Rommel
The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
William C. Westmoreland
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
George S. Patton Jr.
Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.
George S. Patton Jr.
Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours. You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.
George S. Patton Jr.
To identity friend or foe is often impossible, unless someone commits a hostile act.
General (Retd) Pervez Musharraf
Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious.
Jimmy Stewart
Science is the most reliable guide in life.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Our true mentor in life is science.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
Omar Nelson Bradley
Science is the most reliable guide in life.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Our true mentor in life is science.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
Omar Nelson Bradley
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom
George S. Patton Jr.
Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.
George S. Patton Jr.
Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable. We are against such a situation and will not allow it. Those who use religion in such a manner have fooled our people it is against just such people that we have fought and will continue to fight.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
My people are going to learn the principles of democracy the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will, every man can follow his own conscience provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him act against the liberty of his fellow men.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
I see no priestly garments on you. There is no ephod on your belt. You presume to speak for Yahweh? You speak his name aloud so lightly?
Cliff Graham
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
George S. Patton Jr.
In history, truth should be held sacred, at whatever cost . . . especially against the narrow and futile patriotism, which, instead of pressing forward in pursuit of truth, takes pride in walking backwards to cover the slightest nakedness of our forefathers.
Col. Thomas Aspinwall
The clash of ideas is not weakness.Truth reaches its place when tussling with error.
Richard Henry Pratt
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.
George S. Patton Jr.
No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.
George S. Patton Jr.
It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.
Andrew Jackson
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.
George S. Patton Jr.
Pressure makes diamonds
George S. Patton Jr.