Army Quotes · Page 15

Without a People's army, the people have nothing.

— Mao Zedong

Treasures and armies do not make a king. A true king is a king within himself.

— Rumi

My father is American and deserted the Vietnam War.

— Joel Kinnaman

Asia has an army of low-wage laborers to thank for its economic boom.

— Paul Achleitner

It was the Marines who taught me how to act. After that, pretending to be rough wasn't so hard.

— Lee Marvin

Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats.

— Joseph Stalin

I know firsthand what a vote to authorize war means to the lives of American families.

— Mike Thompson

We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

— Gloria Swanson

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

— John Scalzi

The biggest thing I take away from the Army is that work ethic and being able to focus and put your eyes…

— Shaggy

The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq -…

— Mark Udall

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Half effort does not produce half results, it produces no results.

— Anonymous

My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.

— Jim Parrack

After I left the Marines in '46, I wanted to stay in the Marines; I was very happy - I loved that…

— David Douglas Duncan

I do not like [in the new Federal Constitution] the omission of a Bill of Rights providing clearly and without the aid…

— Thomas Jefferson

The army taught me to sign my name very quickly, and that's stood me in good stead the rest of my life.

— Nicky Oppenheimer

The only government that I recognize--and it matters not how few are at the head of it, or how small its army--is…

— Henry David Thoreau

The (Catholic) church, as far as I know, has not endorsed any war as just since it supported General Franco's invasion of…

— Christopher Hitchens

“By not burning their poppy fields to the ground but instead maintaining a security umbrella that international development agencies could safely work…

— Jake Wood

I think there was a lot of working out the arc of how Manny [Daniel Radcliffe] talks. Scene to scene [in the…

— Paul Dano

Lincoln has accepted America as a biracial society. He's talking about giving at least some black men the right to vote. In…

— Eric Foner

American youth tend to have tattoos now. The demographic is changing. If a kid is in good shape and passes all the…

— Bryan Hilferty

The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life; I never believed that an organization such as ours could ever…

— Spike Milligan

Why, it appears that we appointed all of our worst generals to command the armies and we appointed all of our best…

— Robert E. Lee

He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others.

— Publilius Syrus

Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle … They conquer by strategy.

— Sun Tzu

Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

— Buzz Aldrin

I went into the army worth a million and a half dollars, and came out a beggar.

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.

— Gal Gadot

My grandfather served as a gunner aboard the U.S.S. Alabama in the Pacific theater during WWII.

— Dana Loesch

“Civilians enjoy their time because soldiers sacrifice their time.”

— Amit Kalantri

I have always been fascinated by the uniform and the army.

— Mohit Raina

I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.

— Simon Raven

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

— Thomas Jefferson

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

— Duke of Wellington

“The most important thing is that you go to bed each night believing you raised a hero.”

— Elin Hilderbrand

My family had to leave Vietnam because my uncles fought alongside the Aussies.

— Anh Do

The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile.

— Benito Mussolini

Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.

— Niccolo Machiavelli