Military Quotes
 
"I'd like to have two armies: one for display with lovely guns, tanks, little soldiers, staffs, distinguished and doddering generals, and dear little regimental officers who would be deeply concerned over their general's bowel movements or their colonel's piles, an army that would be shown for a modest fee on every fairground in the country.
 
"The other would be the real one, composed entirely of young enthusiasts in camouflage uniforms, who would not be put on display, but from whom impossible efforts would be demanded and to whom all sorts of tricks would be taught.  That's the army in which I should like to fight." 
 

--Jean Larte Guy, Soldier and Writer--

 
 

  "The reason the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices it on a daily basis."
--from a post-war debriefing of a German General

 

"There is no problem that cannot be solved by the use of high explosives."
--Bumper Sticker

 

"Anything worth fighting for is worth fighting dirty for"
--Unknown

 

"I'd rather go down the river with seven studs than with a hundred shitheads"
--Colonel Charlie Beckwith

 

"It take 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
--Ferdinand Foch
 

"When you men get home and face an anti-war protester, look him in the eyes and shake his hand. Then, wink at his girlfriend, because she knows she's dating a pussy."
--Attributed to General Tommy Franks
 

"War is hell, but actual combat is a motherfucker."
--Colonel Dave Hackworth's response to a reporter's attempt to
interview him about a battle

 

"Which brings me to perception. Some of you may remember Commander General Conway's speech before we left Kuwait, he mentioned those who don't support us. To quote him he said: 'Piss on them'."
--Lieutenant Colonel Piers Hankinson, commander of the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment

 

"The Iraqi people are capable of fighting to the victorious end which God wants... the blood of our martyrs will burn you!"
--Saddam Hussein, August 1990--
 

"I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version."
--Colonel Oliver North, from his Iran--Contra testimony 

 

"Paper-work will ruin any military force"
--Lieutenant-General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller--
 

"I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind."
--General George S. Patton--

 

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making
the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
---General George Patton Jr--
 

"They are in front of us, behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an
enemy that outnumbers us 29:1. They can't get away from us now!"
--Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller--, USMC
 

"Just drive down that road, until you get blown up"
- General George Patton, about reconnaissance troops

 

"The Lybian army is capable of destroying America and breaking its nose."
--Muammar Qaddafi--

 

"We’re not running out of [fixed] targets. Afghanistan is.”
--Donald Rumsfeld--, Oct. 9, 2001.
 

From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.
--Thomas Jefferson--

 

The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the
backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!
--Rudyard Kipling--

 

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--

 

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won.
For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
--Ernest Miller Hemmingway--

 

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion
to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.
--Charles Edward Montague--

 

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because
rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
--George Orwell--