It is important for me, as a popular artist, to make clear to the governments of the United States and Mexico that despite the strategy of fear and intimidation to foreigners, despite their weapons, despite their immigration laws and military reserves, they will never be able to isolate the Zapatista communities from the people in the United States.
Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the normal ones and the heroes are insane.
War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.
There will be boots on the ground if there's to be any hope of success in the strategy.
In view of the result of attained at the Washington Treaty which, my advisors believe, guarantee peace in the Pacific for some time to come, it is proposed to reduce the establishment of the navy and army, and postpone the expansion of the air force.
You don't help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.
An untrained or uneducated Marine. . . deployed to the combat zone is a bigger threat to mission accomplishment. . . than the enemy.
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.
I'm not a military man. I wish I were, then maybe I could give some advice.
World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.
We will in fact encourage them to commit more suicides. We have given them death and poison.
There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
In the old days it would have been a relatively simple matter to have checked Hitler's territorial ambitions. All you'd have needed would have been the 1914 combination of Britain, France and Russia. Indeed, if such an alliance had acted decisively to defend Czechoslovakia in 1938, Hitler might even have been overthrown by his own military. But it was not to be.
Every morning, I get up, get out of bed, and get on my knees and thank God for waking up in America. . . (She is) the light of the world. . . A nation of heroes. . . The real stars are wearing body armor on top of their battle dress uniforms in 130 degree heat and they do not have stunt doubles to come in for them when the going gets rough and the bullets and the shrapnel start flying. They are the real stars, fighting terrorism and trying to free a nation.
A nation's greatness is measured not just by its gross national product or military power, but by the strength of its devotion to the principles and values that bind its people and define their character.
Our country is in serious trouble. We don't win anymore. We don't beat China in trade. We don't beat Japan, with their millions and millions of cars coming into this country, in trade. We can't beat Mexico, at the border or in trade. We can't do anything right. Our military has to be strengthened. Our vets have to be taken care of. We have to end Obamacare, and we have to make our country great again, and I will do that.
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor. . . This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!
How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land?. . . The end of living and the beginning of survival.
