Army Quotes · Page 78

“You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense…

— Guy de Maupassant

The left-wing thinkers and intellectuals have been more misogynist with me than the army. They can't accept that a young woman is…

— Maria de Medeiros

It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be…

— Aslan Maskhadov

The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and…

— H. G. Wells

Anarchism is opposed to states, armies, slavery, the wages system, the landlord system, prisons, monopoly capitalism, oligopoly capitalism, state capitalism, bureaucracy, meritocracy,…

— Donald Rooum

Huwaei receives significant funding from the Chinese government and is run by a former director of the telecoms research unit of the…

— Crispin Blunt

I wanted a challenge, wanted to be self-sufficient, so I thought, 'Go and join the army,' at a young age, and I…

— Ant Middleton

My grandparents live in Cley, and my dad now has the windmill which is a guest house. So I've spent much time…

— James Blunt

The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety,…

— Niklaus Wirth

My father thought that if I was to go into the army, at the least I would have a reliable paycheck at…

— Vieux Farka Toure

Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) moved from a legitimate to a charismatic role, reversing the course followed by Washington. Yet therewere surface similarities in…

— Garry Wills

I always thought that owing to their social standing, army spouses had to maintain a dignified appearance, no matter what, at all…

— Pranitha Subhash

If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of…

— James Connolly

Rule by the statist elite is not benign or simply a matter of who happens to be in office: it is rule…

— Murray Rothbard

The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them,…

— Mark Twain

The Long March The Red Army is not afraid of hardship on the march, the long march. Ten thousand waters and a…

— Mao Zedong

American audiences tend to underappreciate the British, but 240 years ago they were us: They were the most powerful nation on Earth.…

— Rick Atkinson

I love writing about the military, as I live near an air force base and am inspired by the sacrifices our soldiers…

— Franny Armstrong

I went through kindergarten through 12th grade, college, law school and four years of active duty in the U.S. Army and I…

— Lee Zeldin

If I was a CIA front company, what would I want to be able to do? Well, I would want to be…

— Trevor Paglen

When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that…

— David McCullough

In later years, it was common, and I was guilty in this respect, to question the motives of those who joined the…

— Sean Lemass

If the Marines are abolished half the efficiency of the Navy will be destroyed. They are as necessary to the well being…

— David Dixon Porter

My dad lived a good life. He was a simple guy. His family had been poor, and he joined the Marines to…

— Brendon Burchard

But being overborne with numbers, and nobody daring to face about, stretching out his hands to heaven, [Romulus] prayed to Jupiter to…

— Plutarch

What a pity it is that our Congress had not known this discovery, and that Alexander Hamilton’s projects of raising an army…

— John Adams

Fools, art is a heavy task, more heavy than gold crowns; it's far more difficult to match firm words than armies, they're…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of…

— Dustin Hoffman

In times of crisis our nation depends on the courage and determination of the Guard. You know the call of active duty…

— George H. W. Bush

“We were trained in the army for ten weeks and in this time more profoundly influenced than by ten years at school.…

— Erich Maria Remarque

The general that hearkens to my counsel and acts upon it, will conquer: let such a one be retained in command! The…

— Sun Tzu

In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence. Hence,…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I remember when I was 13 or 14 friends coming over and my father telling them the benefits of joining the army.…

— John Barnes

At first he thought he felt bad because he was afraid of leading an army, but it wasn't true. He knew he'd…

— Orson Scott Card

“As they prepared themselves to go ashore no one doubted in theory that at least a certain percentage of them would remain…

— James Jones

After the Russian army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama's reaction was one of moral indecision and equivalence, the kind of…

— Sarah Palin

Make no mistake, our military readiness is already suffering, ... According to a recent RAND study, the Army has been stretched so…

— Russ Feingold

From 1967 to '70, Nigeria fought a war - the Nigeria-Biafra war. And in the middle of that war, I was 14…

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

He wondered what kind of blueprint beavers had for creating such a structure-or did they simply start aimlessly weaving stuff together until…

— Patrick F. McManus

From the moment the organizer enters a community he lives, dreams... only one thing and that is to build the mass power…

— Saul Alinsky