Quotes of: Military-personnel Keyword

I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

Ferdinand Marcos

There is a great deal of concern in the Chinese military that Taiwan's reunification with China is drifting further and further away.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.

Jerry Cantrell

In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments.

Tulsi Gabbard

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

Isabel Paterson

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

John F. Kennedy

We want peace and development in all 10 states of South Sudan - we don't want military backing.

Ger Duany

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

George Santayana

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

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.

Alphonse Allais

At the end of our NASA careers, no one had a place for us in the military.

Wally Schirra

A military career offers the stability many South Korean women crave.

Kim Young-ha

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

Allan Massie

Dr. Lois Jolyon West was cleared at Top Secret for his work on MKULTRA. West's numerous connections to the mind control network illustrate how the network is maintained, not through any central conspiracy, but by an interlocking network of academic r...

The C.I.A. Doctors: Human Rights Violations by American Psychiatrists

Carter's renowned 1979 "malaise speech" [...] is little remembered for what it actually was: a call to arms for fixing our nation's dire energy future. "Beginning this moment, this nation will never use more foreign oil than we did in 1977--never" [....

Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power

I expected, as I approached the corporate world, to enter a brisk, logical, nonsense-free zone, almost like the military - or a disciplined, up-to-date military anyway - in its focus on concrete results. How else would companies survive fierce compet...

Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

For more than a decade, the United States had been giving large-scale military aid to the French colonialists, and then to the American-installed but authoritarian South Vietnamese government, to fight nationalists and communists in Vietnam. More tha...

The Struggle for Democracy

Il n'arrivait às à trouver exactement son aplomb. Comme lorsqu'on déplace un meuble très lourd et qu'on n'arrive plus ensuite à faire coïncider sa base avec ses marques laissées au sol. Ou comme lorsqu'on n'arrive plus à replier une chemise c...

Fred Vargas

We took a right at the fork, heading farther north. The charred houses continued. To the right, a large sign nailed to an old telephone post shouted DANGER in huge red letters. Underneath in crisp black letters was written: IM-1: Infectious Magic Are...

Ilona Andrews

If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.

Robert M. Gates