Army Quotes · Page 65

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

— Anonymous

I have a lot of family members that served in the American military. I did not serve; I filled out the selective…

— Anthony Scaramucci

Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.

— Anonymous

Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by…

— Anonymous

I was a fireman. I lived in the fire sta­tion for about a year. The pay wasn't so good. It was kind…

— Tom Waits

Commanders and senior officers should die with troops. The honour of the British Empire and the British Army is at stake.

— Lord Randolph Churchill

I've lived in 11 states, but I'm not an Army brat. My father couldn't hold a job, so every six months, we'd move.

— Geneva Carr

Canada has sent an army of 1,000 soldiers to occupy the Muslim country of Afghanistan (and ships to the Persian Gulf),

— George Galloway

If you don't want to call it a European army, don't call it a European army. You can call it 'Margaret', you…

— Romano Prodi

By the time Napoleon abandoned his army to its fate in Poland - arriving back in Paris on 5 December - it…

— Saul David

I come from Ambedkar Nagar, a small district in Uttar Pradesh 200 kilometres away from Lucknow. My father was an engineer in…

— Arunima Sinha

I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the…

— Smedley Butler

I'm not a pacifist at all; I think there is a notion of "just war" that can be persuasively argued. I think…

— Cornel West

I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my…

— Andy Gibb

The armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon are poised on the borders of Israel ... to face the challenge, while standing…

— Gamal Abdel Nasser

Peace must be framed on so equitable a basis, that the nations would not wish to disturb it . . . so…

— David Lloyd George

I went to Kent State basically to avoid going to Vietnam, I had no idea what I was doing in the world.…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

I'm going to fight my way out, I'm going to take all my equipment and all my wounded and as many dead…

— Oliver P. Smith

Ideas go booming through the world louder than cannon. Thoughts are mightier than armies. Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen or…

— William McGregor Paxton

If you look at how the federal government spends our money, it’s an insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army.

— Ezra Klein

If we can take Harry Reid out, we can take our country back. I'm not here to preach to the choir. I'm…

— Sharron Angle

Those Muslims in America's army that stand with the Constitution, I support them, and I think we all have to.

— William G. Boykin

I can't destroy the whole army, and anyway [Tikka Khan] bad reputation for the events in Dacca is exaggerated.

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded.

— Keith Miller

And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the Army, so he could help me…

— James Blunt

The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last…

— Joseph Stalin

The existence of such an [international Islamic] army rules out the superpowers' interference in disputes among Muslim countries.

— Mohsen Rezaee

In my head there is a whole army of people asking to be let out and waiting for the word of command.

— Anton Chekhov

I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came…

— Gene Hackman

I developed the armed forces, especially in a way that improved living and working conditions. My record is there.

— Ali Bongo Ondimba

I wanted to join the Army the sign said 'Be All That You Can Be', they told me it wasn't enough.

— Jay London

I knew that I wanted to apply for a job in the Air Force, that I couldn't because it was a direct-combat,…

— MJ Hegar

I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and…

— Eli Wallach

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the…

— Albert Camus

Having studied in a girls school, I was always surrounded by women, all of who were strong-willed and came from army backgrounds,…

— Neeti Mohan

When I first went into the active Army, you could tell someone to move a chair across the room. Now you have…

— Robert Lembke

I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning…

— Patrick MacGill

Place your army in deadly peril, and it will survive; plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off in safety.

— Sun Tzu

“Tom's Navy SEAL team nicknamed him 'Tailspin', especially after sustaining his knee injury, but Joe likes to call him his 'Lucky Charm'…

— L.A. Kragie

A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to…

— Daniel Boone