{"id":2606,"date":"2021-02-23T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T04:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/?p=2606"},"modified":"2024-12-27T15:30:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T10:00:14","slug":"best-military-quotes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/2021\/02\/23\/best-military-quotes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"53: BEST MILITARY QUOTES  2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800000;\"><u>9. On Air Power<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800000;\">\u201cAir power is not only a fascinating subject but its theory and practice also constitute a very demanding profession; and even a lifetime\u2019s study and devotion is inadequate to unravel its mystique or fully understand its imperatives\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800000;\"><em>&#8211; Air Cmde Jasjit Singh<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><u style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">10. On Importance of insignificant looking matters<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">\u201cFor the want of a nail the shoe was lost,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">For the want of a shoe the horse was lost,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">For the want of a horse the rider was lost,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">For the want of a rider the battle was lost,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">And all for the want of a horseshoe-nail.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\"><em>&#8211; Benjamin Franklin<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #008000;\">11. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #008000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">On art of War<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;\">\u201cThe supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;\"><em>&#8211; Sun Tzu<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><u style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">12. On Starting War<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;\">&#8220;The militaries don&#8217;t start wars. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;\">Politicians start wars.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;\"><em>-William C. Westmoreland<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">13. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;\">On Leadership<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;\">&#8221;Never tell people how to do things. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;\">Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;\">\u2013 <em>General George S. Patton, U.S. Army<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #339966;\"><u>14. On<\/u><u> Leadership<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>\u201cThe greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>\u2013 Ronald Reagan<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><u style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">15. On War Planning<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #003366;\">\u201cNo plan ever survived the first contact with the enemy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>\u00a0&#8211;<\/strong><\/span><em style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Tom Franks<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #993366;\">16. On Leadership<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #993366;\">&#8220;If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #993366;\"><em>&#8211; John Quincy Adams<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">17. <\/span><\/span><u style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Bravery<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8211; George S. Patton<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><u style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">18. On Warfare<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #003366;\">&#8220;War is too important to be left to the generals&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #003366;\"><em>&#8211; Georges Cl\u00e9menceau<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><u style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">19. On Bravery<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;\">&#8220;What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;\">\u00a0It&#8217;s the size of the fight in the dog.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;\"><em>&#8211; Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000080;\">20. On Flying<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000080;\">\u201cSometimes, flying feels too God-like to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, and too distant for human eyes to see.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000080;\"><em>\u2013 Charles A. Lindbergh<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Contributions and value additions are most welcome<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 9. 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