Memorial Day Sayings

A ruler that has only an army has one hand, but he who has a navy has both.

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

The general of the army is the last man to know what is going on.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Money to the military is like manure: it's no good unless you spread it around.

The liberty that you enjoy is the work of a few good men who have sacrificed their lives for it.

Coquetry, like a regular army, but with its more formidable implements reserved in the background, is in the front and always ready for action.

When the world has the Tao, the swift horses are used for hauling manure. When the world is without the Tao, war horses are bred in the suburbs.

If one would have a friend, then must one also be willing to wage war for him: and in order to wage war, one must be capable of being an enemy.

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

The war will be won in the streets.

For what can war, but acts of war still breed, Till injur'd truth from violence be freed?

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.

I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.

All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original.

treat the business tycoons deeply linked to the military as 'fellow citizens' and build the country together.

Military dictatorship is strangling my people.

The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.

The answer to the terrorism of the left and the right is not social and economic reform, but police and military action.