Army Quotes · Page 15

The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.

— Karl Marlantes

I didn't know whether to join the army or go to art college.

— Timothy Spall

Nothing scares the army more than nonviolent opposition.

— Julia Bacha

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— Brane Smallwood

Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.

— David Attenborough

Humiliation sets armies marching, empires falling, breaks hearts and minds and souls.

— Janet Morris

An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness.

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

We don't need mass armies anymore. We replace it with more effective equipment.

— George W. Bush

I had to join the army, because I knew I would be inside or dead otherwise. I needed someone to channel my…

— Nigel Benn

This manual of the Communist Party should be in the hands of every loyal American, that they may be alerted to the…

— Kenneth Goff

To be a Navy SEAL, it's three and a half years training before you're ever put into harm's way the first time.

— Ryan Zinke

Streamlining the army with Chinese characteristics is the right choice for China in military modernization,

— Jiang Zemin

Born in poverty, he will take supreme power. He will bankrupt the country. Raising an army in the Milanese marches, he will…

— Nostradamus

Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.

— Frank Herbert

It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American…

— Henry Louis Gates

“I hadn't thought about what any army trains for. It merely maintains itself here for no exterior purpose.”

— Allen Ginsberg

Even if you want to take the American story, they say we used chemical weapons the same day the team or the…

— Bashar al-Assad

An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One man, brief in space, must spread his…

— Roger Zelazny

It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army…

— Henry L. Stimson

In the army, all combat officers are taught the "Estimate of the Situation": When you are faced with a problem - take…

— Colin Powell

Now, I went into the Army as a Republican, I came out as a Democrat, and it completely changed my outlook on…

— Markos Moulitsas

No one will pay you for planning an expedition at first: you have to work in pubs at weekends so you can…

— Ranulph Fiennes

The Chinese central government will slowly and steadily lose authority while regional armies [gain power]. The Western powers are going to take…

— George Friedman

One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of…

— A. N. Wilson

In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer...

— Lewis Mumford

I'm proud to have served there for 12 months with Alpha Company of the 39th Infantry.

— Wes Studi

At an early age, I quit high school at 17 and joined the Air Force.

— Sandy Adams

Yes, we need a force to continue to train, assist, advise the Iraqi army.

— Jack Keane

ISIL is a terrorist army like we have never seen - they cannot be ignored.

— Chris Murphy

I hear from many soldiers who are proud members of Bachelor Nation.

— Chris Harrison

I ended up in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific, operating out of Ayuka field in Hawaii.

— Louis Zamperini

Negative peace is possible as long as you have a strong army.

— Abiy Ahmed

I idolized my mother. I didn't realize she was a lousy cook until I went into the army.

— Jackie Gayle

My, aren't we bossy today. Give a girl an army and it goes straight to her head.

— Julie Kagawa

I have deep respect for our armed forces and jawans.

— H. D. Kumaraswamy

Well, my father was a marine so you know how that is.

— Xzibit

The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I went to the Naval Academy in Annapolis and then I went right into the Navy after that.

— Mikie Sherrill

“Drunks are an asset on the front line, the army taught me. In the air, we’re a nuisance.”

— Hugh Howey

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

— Euripides