Donald Trump Quotes

An army marches on its stomach.

Standing navies, as well as standing armies, serve to keep alive the spirit of war even in the meek heart of peace. In its very embers and smoulderings, they nourish that fatal fire, and half-pay officers, as the priests of Mars, yet guard the temple, though no god be there.

Mussolini is quite humiliated because our troops have not moved a step forward. Even today they have not succeeded in advancing and have halted in front of the first French fortification which put up some resistance.

Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.

If we need women in our defense forces, we must not need much defense.

How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation? The means of security can only be regulated by the means and the danger of attack. They will, in fact, be ever determined by these rules, and by no others . . . . If one nation maintains constantly a disciplined army, ready for service of ambition or revenge, it obliges the most pacific nations who may be within the reach of its enterprises to take corresponding precautions.

We've got to strengthen our military long-term. We don't know what the world is going to throw at us down the road.

The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.

It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.

Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army

I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn't really want to do something that was set in the trenches, so to speak.

John Wayne was just a very conservative guy, who had not served in World War II, and he was defensive about that - he almost overcompensated his anti-Communism because of that reason.

You can't carpet bomb ISIS if you don't have planes and bombs to attack them with. And if we continue those cuts that we're doing , not to mention additional cuts, we are going to be left with the oldest and the smallest Air Force this country has ever had, and that leaves us less safe.

my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II.

History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union.

A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.

We are all proud of is World War II where we went in, we were decisive, we came to the conclusion that freedom prevailed, and we were heroes.

The commanders and fighters of the entire Chinese People's Liberation Army absolutely must not relax in the least their will to fight; any thinking that relaxes the will to fight and belittles the enemy is wrong.

In World War II, the government went to the private sector. The government asked the private sector for help in doing things that the government could not do. The private sector complied. That is what I am suggesting.

Australia and New Zealand are now threatened by the might of the Imperial Japanese forces, and both of them should know that any resistance is futile.

Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army

The Japanese Prime Minister has apologized for Japan's part in World War II. However, he still hasn't mentioned anything about karaoke.

The two-war strategy was a product of the cold war, when we had to have the ability to fight the Russians on the plains of Europe and fight the Chinese on the Korean peninsula at the same time. That costs an awful lot of money.

When it comes to the military, we have no choice. We cannot have a depleted military.