Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [41-60] of 131 Military quotesMilitary QuotesMilitary Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. ...Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.~ Elbridge Gerry Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that governments have ever maintained. True social harmony grows naturally out of solidarity of interests. In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is non-existent; hence social harmony is but a myth.... Thus the entire arsenal of governments - laws, police, soldiers, the courts, legislatures, prisons - is strenuously engaged in "harmonizing" the most antagonistic elements in society.~ Emma Goldman The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.~ Ulysses S. Grant American strategic [nuclear] forces do not exist solely for the purpose of deterring a Soviet nuclear threat or attack against the U.S. itself. Instead, they are intended to support U.S. foreign policy.~ Colin Gray As George Orwell pointed out, people sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.~ Richard Grenier There are contingency plans in the NATO doctrine to fire a nuclear weapon for demonstrative purposes, to demonstrate to the other side that they are exceeding the limits of toleration in the conventional area.~ Alexander Haig Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?~ Alexander Hamilton The President is to be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. In this respect his authority would be nominally the same with that of the king of Great Britain, but in substance much inferior to it. It would amount to nothing more than the supreme command and direction of the land and naval forces, as first general and admiral ... while that of the British king extends to the declaring of war and to the raising and regulating of fleets and armies -- all which, by the Constitution under consideration, would appertain to the legislature.~ Alexander Hamilton The thought that average citizens will somehow be better able to successfully defend themselves more effectively than our nation's trained professionals is absurd.~ Handgun Control, Inc. The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.~ William Henry Harrison In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there; a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.~ B. H. Liddell Hart The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.~ B. H. Liddell Hart The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs.~ Friedrich August von Hayek If one shoots at a king, one must not miss.~ Sidney Hook Every single American can exclaim, 'Nothing justifies what they did in New York and Washington,' not even the bombs that our government has dropped on them for ten years or the embargo that has caused the deaths of so many children. That's of course true…The issue is simply an acceptance of reality and a fundamental fact of life: When governments do bad things to people, people sometimes retaliate.~ Jacob G. Hornberger Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.~ Aldous Huxley To come to know your enemy, first you must become his friend, and once you become his friend, all his defences come down. Then you can choose the most fitting method for his demise.~ Tokugawa Ieyasu If a multitude is to be subjected to a plan, it must be militarized. If individuals are allowed a free choice, the plan is thrown into confusion. Bureaucracy, under an absolute ruler, or rulers, is necessary. Popular consent can be secured only by rigorous censorship and prohibition of free discussion. Espionage is a necessary part of the system, and a considerable amount of terrorism. Since private expenditure must be controlled, it is wise to keep private incomes near a subsistence level and to dole out any surplus on collective pleasures such as free holidays. We shall not understand totalitarian tyranny unless we realize that it is the result of the planned economy.~ Dean Inge A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.~ William Ralph Inge The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.~ Thomas J. Jackson Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print