Lactantius Quotes

How can you lay siege to a whole country? Who is really under siege now? Baghdad cannot be besieged.

God was on the Roman side.

It is apparent that the Japanese military have initiated a widely extended movement of aggression only after careful preparation with a strategic goal in mind

Let Rome’s art tell the empire’s story.

Rebuilding the military is something Putin will pay attention to.

The military is arguably the most significant social institution in our country.

The only way we're going to keep America safe is to have an elite military, all right.

As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, my first priority is to ensure the readiness of our military.

I've been obsessed with Romans since I was a child.

There are all kinds of historians and scholars who say that Brutus could have been a son of Caesar. That's definitely a possibility. He's a generation younger than Caesar.

Our troops shouldn't be mired in taking land for the Afghan military, providing force protection and fighting a permanent insurgency.

Pompeii is taught at schools in England, and, for a young boy, the combination of the Roman Empire and a volcano was irresistible.

If the military is to show the capabilities that we demand and expect of it, then the defense budget has to continue to rise.

For far too long we have continued to mark our military prowess by the size of our forces: believing that numbers of ships, planes, and brigades is what most matters - just like during the Cold War.

As a national security aid, I worked with our military to strengthen our national defense.

Militarism is the most energy-intensive, entropic activity of humans, since it converts stored energy and materials directly into waste and destruction without any useful intervening fulfillment of basic human needs. Ironically, the net effect of military, as opposed to civilian, expenditures is to increase unemployment and inflation.

This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra. The Americans are the people who are under siege.

My dad was in the Swedish armed forces, he was always reading up on different weapons from the Americans and Soviets. When I was a kid, I was in bed looking at his books, reading about the Red Army. So I was very aware of it. I had an interest in military matters ever since.

The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.

The drones are really interesting - how have the troops withdrawn from Afghanistan? Because we've upped the drone strikes and most of the country doesn't even really know what that means or who we're killing or... it's such a new weapon that we don't know what the long term impacts of that kind of military action is going to be.

I’ve been calling for more troops for over two years, along with John McCain and others subsequent to my saying that.

In all their wars against the French they [the Americans] never showed such conduct, attention and perseverance as they do now.

If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.

Donald Trump in Philadelphia, and he's delivering a very substantive speech on military preparedness, the status of the current military. He detailed the deterioration of the U.S. military in the past eight years and explained how he's going to rebuild it and why we need to, and it's a very tough audience. It's an expressly military audience, and they are of course listening for any sign that he's not really genuine here. I think, knocking this out of the park as far as that audience is concerned.

The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them.