Army Quotes · Page 31

Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.

— William Shakespeare

[O]ur War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.

— Earl Warren

I left the Navy as a lieutenant after spending almost 10 years as a helicopter pilot.

— Mikie Sherrill

One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.

— Jose Marti

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

— Alexander the Great

The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy.

— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

I have drawn a very close bond to all the military people.

— Toby Keith

I always thought the Yankees had something to do with it.

— George Pickett

I think that as the guardian of justice elected by the people it's our duty to use whatever forms of force, police,…

— Pierre Trudeau

It lies upon the people's shoulders to prepare for the war, but it lies upon the Israeli army to carry out the…

— Moshe Dayan

I refuse to accept that the world is so poor, when just one week of global spending on armies is enough to…

— Kailash Satyarthi

I'd always also been interested in being in the army because my dad was in the army and my brother is an…

— Phil Dunster

I grew up poor, but I didn't really know it because of amazing places like the Salvation Army where we got a…

— Trey Songz

I have an uncle who was heavily involved in World War 2, so over the years, I've talked to him many times.

— Michael Giacchino

After being thrown out of the house, four schools and the United States Army, I discovered that I was on the right…

— Robert Downey, Sr

These guys are not from the Iraqi army, ... These are not Iraqi soldiers. They are not members of any of the…

— Al Capone

“Kallor shrugged. '[...] I have walked this land when the T'lan Imass were but children. I have commanded armies a hundred thousand…

— Steven Erikson

If I wanted to be Rimbaud, what was I doing in graduate school? Trying to stay out of the army, of course.…

— Richard Elman

Pictures and reminders fill my office. Samuel Cochran, B. H. Hodges, my parents, my wife, my brother and sisters, my fellow Marines…

— Jim Webb

“He wasn't like some of the hippies in England, where the qualification to rebel is planted by the guilt raised from being…

— Craig Stone

Unfortunately, my rivals are spreading all kinds of suspicions for political reasons that are absolutely not true. They've tried accusing me of…

— Juan Manuel Santos

What's always got me is the fact that when people talked on the telly about Iraq, before Afghanistan kicked off, you'd get…

— Ross Kemp

In organized groups such as the army or the Church there is either no mention of love whatsoever between the members, or…

— Theodor Adorno

I've always been politically minded and against the status quo. It's pretty basic when you're brought up, like I was, to hate…

— John Lennon

Give me an army saying the Rosary and I will conquer the world.

— Anonymous

After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian,

— Chris Kyle

I had other priorities in the sixties than military service.

— Dick Cheney

“Apparently officers are not ‘men’. Officers are ‘officers’.”

— Aditi Mathur Kumar

... you cannot make a man clean [simply] by washing his shirt.

— William Booth

Growing up, I had military members in my family.

— Brad Marchand

Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week.

— Whitey Ford

“Let’s all be citizens that the Forces are ‘Proud To Protect”

— Sandeep Sahajpal

The Marine Corps was the first father figure I had ever known.

— Art Buchwald

When armies are mobilized and issues joined, the man who is sorry over the fact will win

— Lao Tzu

A military life has ever comported with my inclination.

— George Stoneman

I was lucky enough myself to have been in Dad's Army for an episode.

— John Leeson

All of us recruits are equal in the eyes of the Army: low as you can go.

— Garth Nix

A family of three had become, in Michael Arroyo's young mind, an army of two.

— Mike Lupica

I've always had a huge appreciation of the military.

— Rex Ryan

I will not move my army until I am absolutely ready.

— George B. McClellan