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• A military road led from this point to Fort Leavenworth, and for many miles the farms and cabins of the Delawares were scattered at short intervals on either hand.

  Francis Parkman

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• I’m inclined to think that a military background wouldn’t hurt anyone.

  William Faulkner

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• JAG is an acronym for the Judge Advocate General, which is the judicial system of the military.

  Catherine Bell

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• When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

  Pierre Corneille

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• Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

  Barbara W. Tuchman

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• My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.

  Smedley Butler

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• And I have to tell you as a grandmother, I worry about the fact that my grandchildren are going to be paying for all the spending, including military spending, that has gone on and the tax cuts that have come through.

  Geraldine Ferraro

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• I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I’ve always been a gadget man.

  Stephen Sondheim

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• A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.

  George S. Patton

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• For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

  Winston Churchill

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• Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

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• I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

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• Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA.

  Edward John Markey

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

  William Westmoreland

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

  Toby Keith

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• I’m an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex.

  Bruce Sterling

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• The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.

  Bob Riley

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• 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

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• Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.

  Eric Alterman

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• Hizbullah is not a militia.

  Bashar Al Assad

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