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Letter "T" » The Military
«Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.»
«We have women in the military, but they don't put us in the front lines. They don't know if we can fight, if we can kill. I think we can. All the general has to do is walk over to the women and say, 'You see the enemy over there? They say you look fat in those uniforms.'»
Author: Elayne Boosler
(Activist, Comedian)
| Keywords:
fat, front, front line, general, lines, military, The Enemy, The Front, The General, The Military, The Women, uniforms
«The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.»
«The devil is in the details, and everything we do in the military is a detail»
Author: Hyman George Rickover
(Admiral)
| About:
Evil
| Keywords:
detail, details, do in, military, The Military
«The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft we can all declare homosexuality instead of running off to Canada.»
«The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.»
Author: Sean O'Casey
(Playwright)
| Keywords:
cannonade, cannonaded, fashioned, futurity, old fashioned, scents, stink, The Military
«Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff. [During a briefing military stuff in which officials began telling him about missile silos]»
Author: William Scott
| Keywords:
briefing, briefings, missile, officials, silo, silos, The Military
«There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.»
«The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Military
| Keywords:
bandit, bandits, caste, castes, Party of, patriots, The Military
«War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.»
Author: Proverb
| About:
War
| Keywords:
entrust, entrusted, entrusting, entrusts, matter to, military, serious, The Military
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