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  • The most fundamental paradox is that if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and to use it successfully. We Americans don't want war and we don't start fights. We don't maintain a strong military force to conquer or coerce others. The purpose of our military is simple and straightforward: we want to prevent war.

    Strong   Military   War  
    "The uncommon wisdom of Ronald Reagan: a portrait in his own words".
  • I think that our American people will welcome a Russian military force for peace-keeping purposes.

  • I believe military force can be used to redress or change the balance of power in the world, but I think that that's always a losing operation if you're not trying to do it in a way which corresponds to the basic desires of the people on whom you are acting.

    Source: presbyterianrecord.ca
  • Let our position be absolutely clear: An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force.

    Military   Mean   America  
    Jimmy Carter (2013). “Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President”, p.492, University of Arkansas Press
  • The big issue is whether the United States will succeed in its venture of reshaping the Middle East. It is not clear to me that using military force is the way to do it. We should not have gone into Iraq. But we have.

    Military   Iraq   Issues  
    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
  • North Carolina, particularly the 8th District, has long played a key role in our Nation's military forces.

    Military   Keys   Long  
  • The use of military force against Iran would be very dangerous. It would be very provocative. The only thing worse would be Iran being a nuclear power.

    Rudy Giuliani's speech at the MSNBC's Republican first presidential candidates debate at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.
  • We will build our military forces to a level that will be, I believe, stronger than ever before if I become President of the United States...

    "CNN Newsroom" with Carol Costello, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2016.
  • The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!

    Military   Army   Men  
    The Seven Seas (1896) "The 'Eathen"
  • We should never allow computers to make inherently governmental decisions in terms of the application of military force, even if that's happening on the internet.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Our country represents nothing but peaceful intentions toward all the earth, but it ought not to fail to maintain such a military force as comports with the dignity and security of a great people.

    Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925
  • We want to approach this in a multilateral way, talking with our friends, consulting with our security council colleagues in the United Nations, hoping to find a way to solve this peacefully, but at the same time recognising that unless the threat of military force is there, Iraq will not disarm.

    Military   Talking   Iraq  
    Source: www.theguardian.com
  • Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

    Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.395, Da Capo Press
  • Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.

    Military   Air   Force  
    Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Resort to military force is a first sure sign that we are giving up the struggle for the democratic way of life, and that the Old World has conquered morally as well as geographically succeeding in imposing upon us its ideals and methods.

    John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Ethics, logic, psychology”, p.365, Indiana University Press
  • Any military force should be dictated by the vital national security interests of the United States. And if and when we use force, we should use overwhelming force for a clearly stated objective. And then when we're done, we should get the heck out.

    "Ted Cruz on opposition to trade bill, ObamaCare alternative". "Special Report" with Bret Baier, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2015.
  • Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

    Military   Army   Warfare  
  • The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

  • I'll tell you what they're all going to face, whichever one of them becomes president on January 21st of 2009. They will face a military force - a United States military force that cannot sustain - continually sustain 140,000 people deployed in Iraq and the 20-odd or 25,000 people we have deployed in Afghanistan and our other deployments.

    Military   Iraq   People  
    "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. APril 13, 2008.
  • The United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets of the Assad regime.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • There hasn't been a military force like the United States of America in the history of the world.

    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

    Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.47
  • The United States is alone among all the countries in that it does not permit US military forces to be under any threat. Other countries are willing to have forces in peace-keeping operations where they sometimes are under threat, but the US is not willing to do that.

  • My advice is: 1. Be judicious in the use of military force. 2. When military force is required, use overwhelming force. 3. Do not micromanage military leaders. 4. Ensure your battle plans will win the conflict and win the peace.

    "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.
  • The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest of the world.

    "The last great heresy" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2002.
  • I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.

  • Cities can be rebuilt, industries can be rebuilt, what really matters are strategy forces, military forces and the cadres leaders, political, military and economic.

  • So a military force has no constant formation, water has no constant shape: the ability to gain victory by changing and adapting according to the opponent is called genius.

    Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.117, Shambhala Publications
  • But in terms of Saddam Hussein being there, let's remember that his country is divided, in effect. He does not control the northern part of his country. We are able to keep arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt.

    Country   Military   Doe  
    "CNN Late Edition" with Wolf Blitzer, July 29, 2001.
  • No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

    Country   Military   War  
    Attributed in Patton (motion picture) (1970). This is sometimes said to have been uttered in a speech by Patton to the Sixth Armored Division of the Third Army, 31 May 1944, but documentation is lacking. The following poem appeared in the Bureau of Aeronautics Navy Department News Letter, 1 Jan. 1943: "The greatest duty of a sailor / Is duty from worries and cares, / Not to die for his country, / Make our enemies die for theirs!"
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