Army Quotes · Page 17

Only a modern army will be able to fight a modern war.

— Howard W. Koch

“The Army can be family. The Army can be religion.”

— Adnan Sarwar

Subjugating the enemy's army without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence.

— Sun Tzu

It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you

— John Dos Passos

It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

I'm from the Vietnam generation. I didn't serve.

— Al Franken

In terms of my military duties, I filed for a delay in my enlistment.

— Seo In-guk

My dad goes through war novels like I go through boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

— Mike Birbiglia

I was going to be a Marine before I was going to be an actor. I was really serious about joining the…

— Steve Zahn

Personally, I don't really have a set style or look. It's pretty much what I feel like wearing that day, from a…

— Shay Mitchell

It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make…

— Jonathan Swift

My father was in the Army - he was a brigadier. In those days, people in the Army used to look down…

— Simi Garewal

The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.

— Georg Brandes

Talking to people who have served was eye-opening and left me with a huge amount of respect for what they do.

— Joe Alwyn

“They shot one of ours.” The lines deepened around his grey eyes. “I’d waste the whole army for spilling a drop of…

— Katherine McIntyre

I think my mum wanted me to join the army or something, or become a surveyor - something with good career prospects.

— Andy Serkis

The best is when we all go at once, like an army of interrelated popcorn zombies who laugh the same laughs and…

— Rachel Cohn

Today a Scot is leading a British army in France [Field Marshall Douglas Haig], another is commanding the British Grand Fleet at…

— Anonymous

I was a kind of a one-man army. I could solder circuits together, I could turn out things on the lathe, I…

— James Van Allen

[Francisco] Franco's army was mainly Moorish. They were recruiting people from Morocco to come to Spain. There was an uprising in Morocco…

— Noam Chomsky

Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into…

— Peter Guber

If you look at Washington, you see permanently camped on the banks of the Potomac spread around in concentric circles an army…

— Charley Reese

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for…

— Jocko Willink

I went to graduate school as a lieutenant colonel after I had been in the army for 12 or 13 years. I…

— Colin Powell

On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.

— Hans Frank

We are an army of dreamers, and that's why we're invincible.

— Subcomandante Marcos

To maintain an army at a distance causes the people to be impoverished.

— Sun Tzu

My biological mother made my clothes or bought my clothes from Salvation Army or Goodwill.

— Tonya Harding

Being ready is not what matters. What matters is winning after you get there.

— Victor H. Krulak

An army of asses led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by an ass

— George Washington

Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.

— John Selden

I know all the bad things that happened in that war. I was in uniform four years myself.

— Ronald Reagan

You might be a redneck if The Salvation Army declines your mattress.

— Jeff Foxworthy

The Lybian army is capable of destroying America and breaking its nose.

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.

— William Tecumseh Sherman

“Some Marauders do do that, but not the smart ones.” Ivy giggles. “I said, doo-doo.”

— S.G. Blaise

I do not believe I could have built FedEx without the skills I learned from the Marine Corps.

— Frederick W. Smith

Victory is the ability to fight five minutes longer than any other army in the world.

— Duke of Wellington

They said I could be anything so I became a soldier.

— Logan Hurst

Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England.

— Napoleon Bonaparte