| "'State intelligence,' like 'military intelligence' and 'woman friend,' is a contradiction in terms." »Niall MacDermot |
| "military intelligence is a contradiction in terms." »Julius Henry Marx |
| "military justice is to justice what military music is to music." »Julius Henry Marx |
| "War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military." »Georges Clemenceau |
| "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." »Marechal Ferdinand Foch |
| "Love is a kind of military service." »Latin Proverb |
| "I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Mtro." »Charles De Gaulle |
| "If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent if you believe the military, nothing is safe." »Lord Salisbury |
| "The stream we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers strength; its waters get over the barrage and continue on their course. The advancement of science is the advancement of God, for science is nothing but human intelligence, and human intelligence is the most valuable treasure God has bequeathed us." »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective." »Sun-tzu |
| "If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it (On military preparedness)" »Nikita Khrushchev |
| "intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence." »Albert Wiggam |
| "He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man. (describing Saddam Hussein of Iraq, 1991)" »Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf |
| "The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military." »William Orville Douglas |
| "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." »George Washington |
| "One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat." »James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr. |
| "Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together." »Dwight D Eisenhower |
| "Despite everything I've achieved in my life, the culinary awards, the military commendations, the honorary degrees, I have never, ever lost sight of what's truly important. The thing that gives meaning to these triumphs. Someone to share them with. A companion. A help mate. A wife." »Andrew Schneider |
| "The people of the South have rejected the constitutional amendment, and therefore we will march upon them and force them to adopt it at the point of the bayonet, and establish military power over them until they do adopt it." »John Whitehead |
| "There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handguns use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution." »Michael Gartner |
| "Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do neccesary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity." »Lois McMaster Bujold |
| "There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have." »Don Herold |
| "It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value." »Arthur C. Clarke |
| "How vain is learning unless intelligence go with it." »Stobaeus |
| "Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip." »Barbara Tuchman |
| "Questions are the creative acts of intelligence." »Frank Kingdon |
| "There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence." »Henry Adams |
| "Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence." »H.L. Mencken |
| "Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence." »Henry Louis Mencken |
| "It is impossible to imagine existence void of any intelligence." »Kedar Joshi |
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