Quotes of: George-washington Keyword

Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.

Nelson A. Miles

World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

Barry Commoner

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

Arleigh Burke

I'm not trying to win a popularity poll. I'm trying to win football games.

Woody Hayes

Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.

Woody Hayes

I don't apologize for anything. When I make a mistake, I take the blame and go on from there.

Woody Hayes

I may not be able to outsmart too many people, but I can outwork 'em.

Woody Hayes

To me, basic SEAL training was a lifetime of challenges crammed into six months.

William H. McRaven

So they didn't let anybody else off. I can't live like this, I'm finished. Auschwitz was easy.

Witold Pilecki

You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

William Tecumseh Sherman

I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.

William Westmoreland

The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.

William Westmoreland

By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?

William Westmoreland

In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.

William Westmoreland

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.

Anthony Zinni

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.

Barry Commoner

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

Carl von Clausewitz

As I've said many times and publicly, a war between China and Taiwan that involves the United States is a lose-lose-lose.

Dennis C. Blair

Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.

Daniel Ellsberg

Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.

Daniel Ellsberg

Memorial bracelets memorializing prisoners of war, missing in action, killed in action, and those who died of wounds or injuries sustained in a combat theater are authorized.

James F. Amos