Patrick MacGill Quotes

By the 21st century, the American military had come to think of itself in war-god-like terms, able to hurl unmatchable thunderbolts.

If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.

I have started that which the country will not willingly let die.

I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these things delight me as the y seem to delight some of our officials, but they are certainly impressive.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or Twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on.

The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.

I feel like a nuclear missile. Point me in that direction, I'll go.

America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.

The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a strength. It symbolizes something that's unstoppable. You can't get through it, you know.

There is no doubt that America remains the premier political, economic, military power in the world, and I both expect and count on it remaining so, because I think that's certainly in our best interest but also the best interests of the world.

Whatever happens, I'll just keep moving forward. Like an avalanche.

Nature doesn't care what we call it, she just keeps on doing it any way she wants.

When soldiers advance without authority, who can halt them?

The Republic never retreats. Its flag is the only flag that has never known defeat. Where that flag leads we follow, for we know that the hand that bears it onward is the unseen hand of God.

Without power, without a strong army and a strong navy, there can be no welfare for us .... The German nation will be either the hammer or the anvil.

Very near the heart of all foreign affairs is the relationship between policy and military power.

God is ordinarily for the big battalions against the little ones.

Power, like lightening, injures before its warning.

You ask what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, be sea, land, and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us…. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer that in one word: It is victory, victory at all cost, victory in spite of all terror, victory no matter ho long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Modern power depends on money and guns. And we have the most of both.

Receding power rides a swift horse.

We may go down, but we will take a world with us.

Troops that can advance no farther must, at any price, hold on to the ground they have conquered and die on the spot rather than give way.

People who bear the brunt of dominant economic and military power have always resented, even hated, the subordination they experience while admiring grudgingly the institutions that sustain the subordination.