Barack Obama Quotes, Military Quotes, Thinking Quotes

I do think that I have a better sense of how military action can result in unintended consequences.

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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.

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I really like being thrown into the works. Many actors, I have found, have this as a common trait. We had to, as children, adapt to various situations with either a military family or things like that.

6 years ago

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Even if only 2 percent of those assigned to perform military service should announce their refusal to fight, governments would be powerless, they would not dare send such a large number of people to jail.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Military Quotes , Fighting Quotes

America must always lead on the world stage. If we don't, no one else will. The military that you have joined is, and always will be, the backbone of that leadership. But U.S. military action cannot be the only - or even primary - component of our leadership in every instance. Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

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The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

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It is the act of a coward to wish for death.

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

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But having made my decision as Commander-in-Chief based on what I am convinced is our national security interests, I will seek authorization for the use of force from the American people's representatives in Congress.

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The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile.

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There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so'

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General," said the commander of the delinquent brigade, "I am persuaded that any further display of valor by my troops will bring them into collision with the enemy.

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They feed the crocodile in the hope that he will eat them last.

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Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.

6 years ago

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I mean, if Pearl Harbor came along, you could have said the planning was wrong by the military ahead of time or maybe the battleships shouldn't have all been in the harbor and all that kind of thing.

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The work for giants...to serve well the guns!

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Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.

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How to achieve the moral breakdown of the enemy before the war has started - that is the problem that interests me. Whoever has experienced war at the front will want to refrain from all avoidable bloodshed.

6 years ago

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We've got to make sure that our economy is strong at home so that we can project military power overseas.

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Keeping our military strong means keepin' our families strong.

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