Military Quotes

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men. (Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord)
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men. View quote
Georges Clemenceau
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. View quote
Rebecca West
I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective. View quote
Jesse Ventura
Diplomacy without military might is like music without instruments. View quote
Frederick II of Prussia
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. View quote
Groucho Marx
Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars. View quote
George C. Marshall
Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value. View quote
Ferdinand Foch
I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions. View quote
Václav Havel
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces. (Richard Perle)
When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. View quote
Groucho Marx
The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government. View quote
James K. Polk
Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties. View quote
George Soros
But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility. View quote
Erwin Rommel
I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use. View quote
Hashemi Rafsanjani
I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers. View quote
William Tecumseh Sherman
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. View quote
Mary McCarthy
I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were. (Hans Blix)
We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient. View quote
Golda Meir
A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country. View quote
Colm Tóibín
Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military. View quote
Barack Obama
We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded. View quote
Barack Obama