Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

The formula ‚Two and two make five‘ is not without its attractions.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist, but I don’t like girls pretending to be stupid because it’s easier.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve – not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country – those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy – the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.

Marty was an extraordinary person. Of all the boys I had dated, he was the only one who really cared that I had a brain. And he was always – well, making me feel that I was better than I thought I was.

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

There are many people who do not know if the U.S. Army has 60,000 men or 6 million. They do not have a clue about that.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn’t let them into the family brokerage business.

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

Woman’s at best a contradiction still.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation – not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

Some of the generals are saying, ‚We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.‘ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

What happens if you stick at something long enough, and study it for so long, you have a different kind of intelligence. It’s not an intellectual thing. It’s almost like an animal intelligence. I call it our form of instinct, almost how a lion knows exactly where its prey is.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.

There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that’s always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

The United States is a violent military state. It’s been involved in military action all over the place.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

I’m not an expert on the arms race.

Look, the American people are smart.

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

I did 20 years in the Navy. I joined the Navy right out of high school and went through Navy boot camp, went to SEAL training, got done with that, and then showed up at a SEAL team, where I did 20 years. That was pretty much my whole adult life.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.