There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.
The disconnect between America and its military is shocking.
Military people do not get what they want by being emotional.
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
Sophocles was a general: a warrior writing plays about military situations.
Military strategy...has become the diplomacy of violence.
The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.
It takes courage and strength to be sensitive to things and even more strength and courage to own up to it or be vocal about it. Robots, the only things with a perfect lack of emotional capacity, are easily controlled, and I suddenly realized that’...
Barton Keyes: Now look, Walter. A guy takes out an accident policy that's worth $100,000 if he's killed on the train. Then, two weeks later, he *is* killed on the train. And, not from the train accident, mind you, but falling off some silly observati...
Snotlout: [to Astrid, during training] So anyway, uh, I moved into my parents' basement? You should come by some time to work out. You look like you work out! [his shield is knocked out by a Gronkle's fireball] Gobber: Snotlout, you're done! Hiccup: ...
Shifu: When you focus on kung fu, when you concentrate... you stink. [Po frowns] Shifu: But perhaps that is my fault. I cannot train you the way I have trained the Five. I now see that the way to get through to you, is with this. [pulls out a bowl of...
Ulysses Everett McGill: Why are you telling our gals that I was hit by a train? Penny Wharvey McGill: Lots of respectable people have been hit by trains. Judge Hobbie over in Cookville was hit by a train. What was I gonna tell them, that you got sent...
Ken: [On the phone with Harry] Do you know what that is? Yeah, I know you know it's a train. Do you know what train? Well, it's a train that Ray just got on, and he's alive and he's well, and he doesn't know where he's going and neither do I. So if y...
Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs.
I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character.
My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.
The truth was that, you know, there was no reason to send me to Shattuck Military School. But it was a disciplinarian school.
The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.
The military is very constitutionalist, and I have my faith in them and in the cooler heads of the people.
Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.
A military life has ever comported with my inclination.
