Quotes about Military

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

At the same time, we're going to take care of our military and we're going to take care of our great, great, great veterans.

In America, every time we take rebels, whether it's in Iraq or anywhere else, we're arming people. And you know what happens? They end up being worse than the people.

Spending time with the military certainly lends itself to some remarkable experiences, and I've been privileged to have had my share.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

If at any point on or in the vicinity of the military line, which is now used between the City Philadelphia and the City of Washington, via Perryville, Annapolis City, and Annapolis Junction, you find resistance which renders it necessary to suspend the writ of Habeas Corpus for the public safety, you, personally or through the officer in command at the point where the resistance occurs, are authorized to suspend that writ.

Now he felt that it would be for him an illegitimate escape from responsibility if he were to avoid the growing contacts with the political and military resistance movement. Not that everyone ought to act as he did, but in his position he saw no possibility of escape any longer into sinlessness and innocence. The sins of the bourgeoisie became clear in the flight from responsibility.

The debate between politicians over the size of our nuclear arsenal and the number of aircraft carriers and submarines our navy should have is, in a sense, a futile debate. Both sides are ultimately trusting in military muscle; they only differ in how much is necessary. The Christian, however, must trust in God, not military might of any size.

This does not mean our country should discharge all our military personnel and mothball our ships and tanks. It means we should not trust in them.

The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or Twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on.

I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.