Powerful Military Quotes

#1. Although military, economic and political strength certainly favors the more powerful side, the matter of simple justice is a counterbalancing factor.

Jimmy Carter

#2. most powerful military in the world is sent to do a task best accomplished by schoolteachers, police forces, persuasion, and time.

Mohsin Hamid

#3. In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.

Pliny The Elder

#4. What chiefly governs the [U.S.] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is simply a receptacle for wasteful expenditure, just as a city dump is the receptacle for the refuse of a city.

Walter Karp

#5. I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.

Edwin A. Abbott

#6. Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.

Timothy Garton Ash

#7. You know, rural Americans are a special people. Their labor puts food on our table and fuel in our gas tanks. Their service in our military sets a powerful example of leadership, honor and sacrifice. Their spirit of community inspires us all.

Tom Vilsack

#8. By the accusation of liberal bias ... the institutions that conservatives revere - the military, corporate America, organized religion, and the powerful conservative groups themselves - will be able to escape scrutiny and increase their influence.

Eric Alterman

#9. I will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.

Mitt Romney

#10. At what point does querying diagnostic criteria tip over into mocking the unusual symptoms of people in very real distress?

Jon Ronson

#11. The Palestinians are fighting with human suicide bombers, that's all they have. The Israelis they've got one of the most powerful military machines in the world. The Palestinians have nothing. So who are the terrorists? I would make a case that both sides are involved in terrorism.

Ted Turner

#12. FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.

Jack Kerouac

#13. If you look at history, there seems to be a regular pattern: the country with the most powerful military also happens to be the one with the world trade currency. That gives them an enormous economic advantage, which causes goods to flow into their country.

David Graeber

#14. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#15. I believe we should work and want to have the most powerful military, but hope we never have to use it. I strongly believe the military should know they are 100 percent supported by the commander in chief.

Phil Roe

#16. She had courage enough, but little imagination; or she would not have forgotten joy, whatever the weight on her.

Robin McKinley

#17. Leaders can choose to grow and change, but generally the most powerful predictor of future performance is past behavior. Evaluate them realistically.

Lee Ellis

#18. When ideas hang out with influence, income will always emerge.

T.D. Jakes

#19. We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

Barack Obama

#20. We are all proud that through God's powerful aid, we have become once more true Germans

Adolf Hitler

#21. Leaders must be good listeners. It's rule number one, and it's the most powerful thing they can do to build trusted relationships.

Lee Ellis

#22. The most powerful military country in the world, America - which makes all the guns, all the machinery, all the bullets - taught us how to shoot the guns.

Muhammad Ali

#23. As the excited passions of hostile people are of themselves a powerful enemy, both the general and his government should use their best efforts to allay them.

Antoine-Henri Jomini

#24. Animals were my pets, and the thought of eating my pets freaked me out.

Carrie Underwood