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• We owe our troops the opportunity to serve in the best-planned, best-equipped, and best-led military force in the world, and we owe them the peace of mind that comes from knowing that they and their families will be taken care of if they sacrifice life, limb or the ability to sleep without war’s nightmares. We owe them not just thanks and best wishes, but action, and action in our nation’s capital.

  John Kerry

  Topics in Sacrifice

  Tags in Troops, Action, Military

• My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

  Jimmy Carter

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  Tags in Military

• I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.

  Tom Brokaw

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Young, Friends, Paying, People, Think, Attention, Military

• The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.

  Charles Dickens

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• The military don’t start wars. Politicians start wars.

  William Westmoreland

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  Tags in Politicians, War, Military

• 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.

  Barack Obama

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lack, Iraq, Defensive, Operations, Military

• Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation – not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

  Barack Obama

  Topics in Economy

  Tags in Hundred, Military

• 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.

  Barack Obama

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Objectives, National, Powerful, Achieve, Continue, Military

• Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Topics in Age, Wedding

  Tags in Eyes, War, Marriage, Military

• If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Complex, Foundations, Sought, Military

• The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs.

  Charles Babbage

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  Tags in Velocity, Importance, Military

• You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.

  John Abizaid

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  Tags in Counterinsurgency, Military

• The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

  Walter Bagehot

  Topics in Ability, Death, History

  Tags in Institutions, Invaluable, War, Military

• When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn’t be any press without the censorship.

  Kate Adie

  Topics in Death, Life

  Tags in Struggle, Military

• I think you also understand that one of the key things that’s got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.

  John Abizaid

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Key, Military

• Well, the reports are correct that we’re conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are.

  John Abizaid

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• Hizbullah is not a militia.

  Bashar Al Assad

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  Tags in Hizbullah, Military

• The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Topics in Art

  Tags in War, Violence, Military

• I have drawn a very close bond to all the military people.

  Toby Keith

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  Tags in Drawn, Bond, Military

• The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else.

  William Westmoreland

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  Tags in Turbulent, Lead, Military