Victory and disaster establish indestructible bonds…

In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.

— H. L. Mencken

Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use…

— Lewis Thomas

“How long does it take for two armies to destroy each other when one has an abundance of bodies and the other an abundance…

— Sarah Mazza

Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive.

— Frans de Waal

As we've seen, deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense. Countries typically don't want foreign soldiers in their cities and towns.

— John O. Brennan

My favorite parts about 'The Battle of Five Armies' were the moments where you could clearly see that we were looking at New Zealand.…

— Evangeline Lilly

If you're in the middle of a field, surrounded by armies, left right and centre, you can't just say: 'I've had enough now, sorry.'

— Alan Pardew

Rule 1, on page I of the book of war, is: "Do not march on Moscow". Various people have tried it, Napoleon and Hitler,…

— Bernard Law Montgomery

I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

— Thomas Jefferson

If one is intelligent and applies himself well, what can he not accomplish? Even small bands of people, I have heard, have defeated whole…

— Sakya Pandita

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with…

— Abraham Lincoln

We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought.

— Saddam Hussein

Countries, not just their armies, win wars.

— John McCain

It's with them that we have constituted a liberation front and brought our logistic support to armies to help their countries come out of…

— Ahmed Ben Bella