“It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really thanked them for it, because I haven't exactly been pro-military in my work.” MayStatesSoundUnitedUnited StatesMilitaryHavensTerribleSavedConventionalConventional Life Author:Robert Jay Lifton
“We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.” ProblemSoundVoiceAbilityEnvironmentMilitaryCommunicationTestsBackgroundsSuperiorsCodeSelectionNoisyPersonnel Author:M. H. Abrams
“I have to say, as a young woman of color, and this may sound controversial, in sci-fi, anything is possible. In sci-fi I can belong to the military. In sci-fi I can have an interracial love affair; I can be a revolutionary.” MayI CanYoungSoundMilitaryColorAffairRevolutionarySci FiYoung WomenControversialLove AffairAnything Is Possible Author:Kandyse McClure
“General welfare is a general condition - maybe sound currency is general welfare, maybe markets, maybe judicial system, maybe a national defense, but this is specific welfare. This justifies the whole welfare state - the military industrial complex, the welfare to foreigners, the welfare state that imprisons our people and impoverishes our people and gives us our recession.” PeopleGivingStatesWholeSoundConditionsMilitaryComplexesDefenseWelfareJustifyCurrencyForeignersRecessionsJudicialWelfare StateMilitary Industrial ComplexNational DefenseGeneral WelfareJudicial System Author:Ron Paul
“And there was a deeper, less visible effect of the Truman loyalty program. Seeing its consequences for certain individuals and fearing its intrusion on their own lives, many in the government sought protection by strongly asserting their anti-Communism. In the public action that ensued, policy was based not on reality but, instinctively or deliberately, on personal caution...Those who urged a militant and sometimes military anti-Communism were considered sound, trustworthy and personally safe; those who questioned such a course were politically unsafe, possible even slightly disloyal.” SometimesRealityGovernmentActionCertainCoursesIndividualSoundSeeingEffectsMilitaryPolicySafeConsequenceProgramDeeperProtectionLoyaltyCommunismVisibleCautionTrustworthyMilitantIntrusionUnsafeTrumanDisloyalAnti Communism Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“I'm not sure I want to sound like a candidate. I just want to sound like an American who's trying to make this country a heck of a lot stronger. Not a politician typical, but somebody that's going to go and do the job, not pay attention to all the special interest groups, change the status quo, shift power out of Washington and get America on the track again with strengthening our military as well.” WantTryingWellsCountryJobsAmericaSoundInterestChangePayAttentionGroupsSpecialMilitaryStrengthPoliticianStrongerTrackPay AttentionNot SureCandidatesTypicalStatus QuoSpecial InterestsInterest GroupsSpecial Interest Groups Author:John Kasich
“I would argue that among musicians who work in technology today, the level of technological sophistication probably exceeds that of military programs, to be blunt. They are just really smart people attracted to making strange new sounds.” PeopleTodaySoundLevelsTechnologyMilitaryStrangeMusicianSmartProgramArguingTechnologicalExceedBluntSmart PeopleSophisticationReally Smart Author:Jaron Lanier
“The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.” MenWarSoundHistoryMilitarySoldierRemembranceVeteranPersistentTotal WarVeterans DayOur VeteransHonoring VeteransAmerican MilitaryHonoring Our VeteransVeterans Day Thank YouGreat Veterans DayThank A VeteranThank You VeteranVeterans Day InspirationalVeterans Day PoemsWar VeteranHappy Veterans DayVeteran AppreciationFunny Veterans DaySoldiers At WarVeterans Day AppreciationAmerican VeteransArmisticeRemembrance DayVeterans Day RemembranceChristian Veterans DayThanking Our VeteransArmistice DayPatriotic Veteran Author:Arthur Koestler