Military

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

—Georges Clemenceau

If I had ever learned to type, I never would have made brigadier general.

—Elizabeth Hoisington, one of the first two female U.S. Army officers to attain the rank

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

—E. B. White

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

—Lord Salisbury

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

—Groucho Marx