I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The armies of the day have chased the army of the night, Heaven and earth are filled with purity and light. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence. — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The most dangerous states in the international system are continental powers with large armies. — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose. — Confucius Copy Share Image
“I would rather teach one child at home than lead ten thousand armies on the battlefield.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies. — John R. Allen Copy Share Image
“The armies of the night are faceless and mindless and the modern equivalent of Visigoths, but when they have a leader, their… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
They called themselves an army. They were planning on recruiting more armies. They were planning on splitting up and forming smaller cells… — Patty Hearst Copy Share Image
The narrative that Peter Jackson has put into 'The Battle of the Five Armies,' it stands alone as a film. Rather than… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being, are always the destroyers of it too; by… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Look at the Intifadah in Jerusalem. One cannot understand that phenomenon, a phenomenon where people, often very young boys, are successfully harassing… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Britain went to war in 1939 in the name of freedom and democracy, but fielded armies within whose ranks were black and… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
The armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon are poised on the borders of Israel ... to face the challenge, while standing… — Gamal Abdel Nasser Copy Share Image
The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
I'd like to have two armies: one for display with lovely guns, tanks, little soldiers, staffs, distinguished and doddering generals, and dear… — Jean Larteguy Copy Share Image
“Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators. — Frederick Stanley Maude Copy Share Image
“How long does it take for two armies to destroy each other when one has an abundance of bodies and the other… — Sarah Mazza Copy Share Image
The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Armies are created to protect an established system, not people. In the future, an educated humanity will not stand for war. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
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… — Alan Pardew Copy Share Image
The scripts that I've been getting are of epic proportion. People want me to lead the big armies. — John Boyega Copy Share Image
Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'... Rule 2 is: Do not go… — Bernard Law Montgomery Copy Share Image
I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There's young actors and they're put… — Paddy Considine Copy Share Image
Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and… — Ferdowsi Copy Share Image
Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the Internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
The armies, the difference of all of those armies that had been fighting each other and the Taliban took advantage of that… — Bulent Ecevit Copy Share Image
One of the things that most people aren't aware of when they think of the Civil War is the number of people… — Gary Miller Copy Share Image
The great help of being in the Army is to understand why are the armies clever in what they describe as emotional… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
In the case of the armies at Fredericksburg it would have been, to say the least, very hazardous to give counter-attack, the… — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
If women are being oppressed in Egypt or children are being forced to join armies in the Congo, for example, it is… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
In the armies, and among every ten men, there must be one of more life, of more heart, or at least of… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
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… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
If one is intelligent and applies himself well, what can he not accomplish? Even small bands of people, I have heard, have… — Sakya Pandita Copy Share Image
You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won't. Especially not astrophysicists - we see the biggest picture there… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
