Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.
Irving Babbitt

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
William Henry Harrison

My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.
Roseanne Barr

The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs.
Charles Babbage

I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I've always been a gadget man.
Stephen Sondheim

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

When an aggressor force continually launches attacks from a particular base of operations, it is sound military strategy to take the flight to the enemy.
Timothy McVeigh

I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.
Tom Brokaw

I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.
John Abizaid

Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are.
John Abizaid

You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.
John Abizaid

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
Ibrahim Babangida

War is much too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
Georges Clemenceau

War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
Georges Clemenceau

We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.
David Hackworth

Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
Benazir Bhutto

The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
Benazir Bhutto

The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.
Benazir Bhutto

I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.
Jesse Ventura

I am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention.
Silvio Berlusconi