Military Sayings 🎖️👮🏼‍♂️ in 2024

A safe army is better than a safe border

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

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self-confidence born of demonstrated ability.

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

Fortune favors the brave.

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.

The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.

We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.

If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

He loves his country best who strives to make it best.

Modern war is the most highly developed of all sciences. We have perfected our weapons but failed to perfect the men who use them

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight—it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

True patriotism isn’t cheap. It’s about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.

It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory.

If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.