Army Quotes

An army is a miniature of the society which produces it.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

We were trained in the army for ten weeks and in this time more profoundly influenced than by ten ye...

I knew it all, the whole drab compass of marital disillusion; we had been through it together, the A...

I knew it all, the whole drab compass of marital disillusion; we had been through it together, the A...

I feel an army in my fist.

But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for...

Disease could wipe out an army quicker than any battle.

There might, Gentlemen, be an impropriety in my taking notice, in this Address to you, of an anonymo...

The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

He once told Allie and I that if he'd had to shoot anybody, he wouldn't've known which direction to ...

I'm always ready for the enemy to come over the hill. I'm packed and set to go. That comes from my t...

He could not blame the Army, Angelo could blame the Army; Angelo hated the Army. But he didnt hate t...

As they prepared themselves to go ashore no one doubted in theory that at least a certain percentage...

All right, he thought, okay; if thats the way it is; a savagery of anger in him now at the picture. ...

I like it too," Angelo said. "I love this country. Much you and anybody, and you know it.""I know it...

You must be a light unto yourself.

Put 'em who threaten possessions and power together with 'em who offend our tastes in sex and dope. ...

I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.Vis...

Look now—in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be count...

To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.

-You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, ...

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exe...

I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, beca...

It was an article of faith with NCOs [noncommissioned officers] that they were better than their off...

I fought to stay awake and keep the car on the road. And I thought back to texts I had read from the...

We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but it...

Do not forget that the armed forces are the servants of the people. You do not make national policy;...

We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more l...

A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an arm...

I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat pean...

You don't want captains in the army who know too much or think too much.

An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government

The participation if women in some armies in the world is in reality only symbolic. The talk about t...

America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that...

How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.

Secret operations are essential in war upon them the army relies to make its every move.

Victory usually goes to the army who has better trained officers and men.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the a...

Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.

There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must be not attacked, towns which must not ...

it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or ...

A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is slugg...

And in a nasty war, where's the best place to be? Apart from on the moon, o' course? No one?"Slowly,...

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

In cities where peace and the arts flourish, men are more consumed by jealousy, worry, and anxiety t...

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.

Vous travaillez pour l'armee, madame?' (You are working for the army?), a Frenchwoman said to me ear...

An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.

They be marching hand in hand, like going to war.

Esteem for the army - never in this country regarded, in the continental manner, as a popular expres...

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?

I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.