Quotes About Military Orders

#1. The Book of Revelation has all the authority, in these theological uplands, of military orders in time of war. The people turn to it for light upon all their problems, spiritual and secular.

H.L. Mencken

#2. 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

#3. If worse comes to worst, I say clearly - a soldier must follow military orders.

Naftali Bennett

#4. The United States are ruled by a financial, media-centered, military-industrial apparatus. Behind Obama's grin, he orders bombings. He just displays a different image than Bush. That's how he expands U.S. global domination.

Nicolas Maduro

#5. Being in the military is amazing; you give orders, and things happen.

Neal Stephenson

#6. Words cannot express how pissed off I am. I am going to have to invent a new word to explain how angry I am. Karflagled. I am so karflagled off at you right now!" "See,

C.T. Phipps

#7. We can all be proud of our men and women in the military who are following their orders, carrying out their missions and sacrificing so much to give the Iraqi people a chance for a more peaceful and prosperous future.

Ron Kind

#8. Stephanos was angry, but he was still a military man, and the best path to victory was following orders. Not exacting revenge.

Evan Currie

#9. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.

Smedley Butler

#10. I cannot approve of your method of operation, you proceed like a bewildered idiot, taking not the least notice of my orders.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#11. Churches were never meant to be mental hospitals. They were supposed to be military outposts under orders to storm the gates of hell. Every believer is on active duty and called to serve a higher purpose with the rank of their blessings and talents.

Shannon L. Alder

#12. When I looked in his eyes, I just kept on walking.

Bill Smith

#13. When you are serving volunteer professional military, you take an oath to the Constitution, not to a policy or a president and you swear to obey the lawful orders of the democratically elected government. And so at the end of the day you could table your personal political views and do your job.

Nathaniel Fick

#14. Uganda's Constitutional Court will decide whether the military court can proceed with this trial. A nation cannot claim to be operating under the rule of law if its military tribunals ignore the orders of civilian courts.

Bill Vaughan

#15. Many people are smarter than their stupid bosses.

Toba Beta

#16. He was an anarchist, though he never got into any trouble about it, except with his wife.

Kurt Vonnegut

#17. 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

#18. No one complains of the rules of Grammar as fettering Language; because it is understood that correct use is not founded on Grammar, but Grammar on correct use. A just system of Logic or of Rhetoric is analogous, in this respect, to Grammar..

Richard Whately

#19. Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#20. Seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first of September was crisp and golden as an apple, and as the little family bobbed across the rumbling

J.K. Rowling

#21. At some stage of development an officer had to stop following orders and start generating them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#22. I realized that both the military and religious orders depend on discipline to shape people - which routine does, in a lot of ways.

Kit Reed

#23. To where? We don't know. To do what? We don't know either. No one tells us anything. We just follow orders.

Derrick Wolf

#24. I would rather have cookies in my jacket pockets than a chain around my dog's neck.

Pat Miller

#25. Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.

Orson Scott Card