Military Sayings 🎖️👮🏼‍♂️ in 2024

Any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: ‘I served in the United States Navy 

Surprise is an event that occurs in the mind of an enemy commander.

I can’t see how a single man could spend his time to better advantage than in the Marines.

Heroism doesn’t always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history.

War is the greatest evil Satan has invented to corrupt our hearts and souls. We should honor our soldiers, but we should never honor war.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste death but once.

We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.

It is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value

Word to the Nation: Guard zealously your right to serve in the Armed Forces, for without them, there will be no other rights to guard.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself

A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.

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

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.

Fortune favors the brave.

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.