F. Edward Hebert Quotes

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

That is the best Government, which best provides for war.

First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight; he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds.

If I were an animal, I would be an eagle.

We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.

You know, I'm an eagle, flying around in the mountains.

As long as I am president, we will maintain the greatest fighting force that the world has ever known.

You are the strongest and the others keep their distance. It is no longer necessary to win victories over them.

It must be thoroughly understood that war is a necessity, and that the more readily we accept it, the less will be the ardor of our opponents.

All the armed prophets have conquered, all the unarmed have perished.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.”

There are hugely creative military leaders who have contemplated just the kind of changes that are needed. In Washington, however, strength lies with the opponents rather than the proponents of change. And the opponents possess the ultimate political weapon of mass destruction. They can accuse leaders who want to challenge the status quo of making America weak. So we’re left with all the systems the country has accumulated to counter every post World War II defense challenge: multiple air forces, multiple expeditionary forces; multiple cyber-commands. We can’t afford what we have. We don’t need much of what we have.

Flutter like a hummingbird, Dive like an eagle, Ain't no bird that's my equal. - Twilight

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.

I'm small but quite tough. When incensed, I can swing a punch.

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

I have both English bulldog determination and Bengal tiger strength.

Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have been at war with each other, under the pretext of religion, ideology, ethnicity and other reasons. And no civilization has ever willingly given up its most powerful weapons.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Men are like lions. We hunt.

I'm not one to be messed with. I can be bad when it needs to happen.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

The thing about owls is that they do sort of have this facial disc, which is unlike any other bird. They kind of have a face, more than like a dog or a giraffe. They have this weird, alien face that you can actually make expressive.

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.