Military Ambition Quotes

Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him, he returns this answer: "Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them, we have not yet conquered one?

Ambition of military fame, ambition over female virtue, was the duplicate ruling passion of his life.

The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government

I shall not return to Constantinople until I have conquered Egypt!

If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.

I had always wanted to go to the Navy. As a young kid, I was intrigued by a Naval Officer with the beautiful brown shoes and sharp gold wings.

PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

How highly should we honor the Macedonians, who for the greater part of their lives never cease from fighting with the barbarians for the sake of the security of Greece? For who is not aware that Greece would have constantly stood in the greater danger, had we not been fenced by the Macedonians and the honorable ambition of their kings?

Ambition, the soldier's virtue.