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  • I did mega-training with ex-military men. I'd be in the gym for two hours after a 12-hour day on Spooks, and it was so hardcore I'd throw up. I stuffed myself with food and drank protein shakes to bulk up. I used to be a dancer, but I had to strap my weak ankles every day and strengthen my wrists so I could hold a machine gun. My body just wasn't up to it.

    Military   Men   Gun  
    "Richard Armitage: 'I was a beanpole with a nose I hadn't grown into'". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2010.
  • There is nothing for me to be sour about. What you got to understand is that I'm a military man. We usually do my shift for four or five years and then you got to move on.

  • 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"
  • There has been a constant struggle on the part of the military element to keep the end- fighting, or readiness to fight-superior to mere administrative considerations. The military man, having to do the fighting, considers that the chief necessity; the administrator equally naturally tends to think the smooth running of the machine the most admirable quality.

    Alfred Thayer Mahan (1918). “Mahan on Naval Warfare: Selections from the Writing of Rear Admiral Alfred T. Mahan”
  • I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

    Love   Military   Army  
    Letter to Sir William Spring, September 1643, in Thomas Carlyle 'Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches' (2nd ed., 1846)
  • All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happens to them, their families will be well taken care of. That's the bond we have with our military men and women and their families.

  • Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

    Army   Men   Thinking  
    In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 265 (10 April 1778)
  • I messed up on the Vietnam Special, because I gave it to civilians? Only military men can handle that.

    Military   Men   Special  
    Source: www.gq.com
  • Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.

    Father   Military   Men  
    Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.53, Delacorte Press
  • A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

    Freedom   War   Military  
  • We all know why [the generals] are so critical of the defense secretary. They're being defensive because they weren't able to implement his brilliant plan [on screen: Operation 'Greet Us As Liberators']. It was so simple: Go in with 100,000 troops, topple the regime, everybody loves us, and we leave by Easter 2003. These ex-military men have their right to their opinions, that's fine. They just shouldn't voice them during a war [on screen: 'Loose Lips Sink Approval Ratings']

    Easter   War   Military  
  • I'm not a military man. I wish I were, then maybe I could give some advice.

    Military   Men   Giving  
    Source: dailynorthwestern.com
  • Military men are the scourges of the world.

    Military   Men   World  
    "On the Water". Short story by Guy de Maupassant, 1888.
  • As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.

    Art   Military   Men  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • My grandfather had come over as a member of the czarist army, to make an arms deal with the British government. Being a blinkered military man, he was unaware that the Russian Revolution was about to take place.

    Military   Army   Men  
    "New Again: Helen Mirren". Interview with James Saynor, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 18, 2015.
  • War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

    Peace   Military   War  
  • People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

  • Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

    Military   Mistake   Army  
  • As a military man who has given half a century of active service I say in all sincerity that the nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils because of the illusions they have generated. There are powerful voices around the world who still give credence to the old Roman precept - if you desire peace, prepare for war. This is absolute nuclear nonsense.

    Powerful   Military   War  
    Speech at Strasbourg, 11 May 1979, in P. Ziegler 'Mountbatten' (1985) ch. 52
  • I'm a military man, I did what I did only because my country had to be saved from tribalism and feudalism. If I failed, it was only because I was betrayed. The so-called genocide was nothing more than just a war in defence of the revolution and a system from which all have benefited.

    Country   Military   War  
    "Talk of the Devil: Encounters with Seven Dictators". Book by Riccardo Orizio, 2003.
  • The inaugural parade is like an extension of the president's personality, .. Dwight Eisenhower, for example. A conservative guy. A military man. Short and simple was what his inauguration parade was all about.

    Military   Simple   Men  
  • I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.

    Military   War   Humorous  
  • A military man can scarcely pride himself on having 'smitten a sleeping enemy'; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. I would rather you made your appraisal after seeing what the enemy does, since it is certain that, angered and outraged, he will soon launch a determined counterattack.

    Military   Sleep   Pride  
    Remark to to Ogata Taketora, the Editor in Chief of Asahi Shimbun, on January 09, 1942. "The Reluctant Admiral". Book by Hiroyuki Agawa, 1979.
  • For us military men, it is impossible to forget.

    Quoted in "Bulletin" - by Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars - Cold War, 1995.
  • I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

    Military   Writing   Men  
  • Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right also for this country. That our leaders, our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan.

    "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.nbcnews.com. September 9, 2008.
  • ...you have been fraternizing with warewolves overmuch! Military men can be terribly bad for one's verbal concatenation!

    "Heartless". Book by Gail Carriger, June 28, 2011.
  • A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.

    Military   Men   Doe  
    Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.753, Best Books on
  • I was a military man for 27 years. I fought so long as there was no chance for peace. I believe that there is now a chance for peace, a great chance. We must take advantage of it for the sake of those standing here, and for those who are not here - and they are many.

    Military   Believe   Men  
  • The war against Iraq is as disastrous as it is unnecessary; perhaps in terms of its wisdom, purpose and motives, the worst war in American history... Our military men and women...were not called to defend America but rather to attack Iraq. They were not called to die for, but rather to kill for, their country. What more unpatriotic thing could we have asked of our sons and daughters...?

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