Civilian Control Of The Military Quotes

#1. The American system of civilian control of the military recognizes that soldiers' attention must be fixed on winning battles and staying alive, and that the fog of war can sometimes obscure the rule of law.

Andrew Rosenthal

#2. The clear suggestion is that there ought not to be civilian control of the military. What have callow noncombatants giving brisk orders to grizzled soldiers? How could Lincoln have fired the slavery-loving Gen. George B. McClellan, or Truman dismissed the glorious Douglas MacArthur?

Christopher Hitchens

#3. It's important. One of the principles in the United States is civilian control of the military.

Wesley Clark

#4. Duarte is a moderate when it comes to civilian control of the military and curbing death squads. On economics, the man is almost a Marxist.

Steve Forbes

#5. It is of first importance that the military be subordinate to civilian government

John Rawls

#6. Unless 'Wii Fit' stops acting like a mean girl, it's over between us forever.

Jen Lancaster

#7. You gotta know someone cares about you, or you just give up.

Katherine Paterson

#8. I was the good Bond girl, but I wanted to have the dresses and the high heels. I wanted the funky, sexy name.

Izabella Scorupco

#9. You know how impossible it is, in short, to have a free nation if it is a military nation and under military orders

Woodrow Wilson

#10. You give them recommendations. You throw different angles at them where, hopefully, they can get something out of it.

Mike Butcher

#11. Being mean about other people isn't on my radar.

Geri Halliwell

#12. I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.

John Abizaid

#13. Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions.

Charles Spurgeon

#14. No one can save me except myself.

Susane Colasanti

#15. Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.

Anonymous

#16. When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.

Adrienne Rich

#17. The saddest fact I've learned is nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody.

Jim DeRogatis

#18. The way to a man's heart is through his stomach ... just make sure you thrust upward through his ribcage.

Stephen Colbert

#19. I've discovered a way to stay friends forever -
There's really nothing to it.
I simply tell you what to do
And you do it!

Shel Silverstein

#20. In all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil.

Baha'u'llah

#21. Aviation is going to control the world economically and militarily whether we like it or not. Airpower is not merely military aviation, it is also civilian aviation and airpower is peace power.

Roscoe Turner