Troops Quotes · Page 6

China can keep her troops on the external frontiers of Tibet, and Tibetans will pledge to accept the appropriate form of union…

— Dalai Lama

Many-have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.

— Thomas Browne

Nobody's more mindful of the sacrifices of our troops than those of us that command them.

— John Abizaid

To ensure victory the troops must have confidence in themselves as well as in their commanders.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

You don't eat before your troops eat, and you don't ask your troops to do anything you won't do, too.

— Robert Mueller

If [Donald Trump] is paid zero [taxes], that means zero for troops, zero for vets, zero for schools or health.

— Hillary Clinton

Terrorize the jam like troops in Pakistan, swingin' through your town like your neighbourhood spiderman!

— Inspectah Deck

But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war.

— Douglas Hurd

The Marine Corps has to ask itself, 'What does our nation need from its premier crisis response force?' We are America's shock…

— James F. Amos

I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break…

— Strom Thurmond

Most Americans believe that escalation will not bring the war in Iraq to a responsible end, and that's why I've proposed not…

— Barack Obama

For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them…

— Kurt Student

Both candidates in this election [2004] pledge to end this war and bring our troops home. The great difference - the great…

— John McCain

We have the smallest navy since 1916, we have the lowest number of troops since the end of the Second World War.…

— Mike Pence

There's a difference between loyal opposition that has a different view, and those who are advocating a defeatist approach that sends the…

— Scott McClellan

Strange? I don't think that word comes anywhere near it. My troops are on an overnight camp three hundred kilometres away from…

— Melina Marchetta

This fight has nothing to do with soldierly gallantry or principles of the Geneva Convention. If the fight against the partisans is…

— Wilhelm Keitel

No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out…

— Sun Tzu

The art of the indirect approach can only be mastered, and its full scope appreciated, by study of and reflection upon the…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

An optimist is somebody who thinks our various political and social systems, schools and churches, support groups and Boy Scout troops, jury…

— Jack McDevitt

When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change overnight from an administrator, dealing with taxation and welfare…

— Jimmy Carter

Sense of smell, of course, is only one of those dog qualities that can't be replicated or improved upon. I've been researching…

— Susan Orlean

I am tired of the warmakers making war with our children. I am tired of our tired troops being sent over to…

— Cindy Sheehan

I am very optimistic about -- about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You're…

— Joe Biden

We owe it to our troops to let them sleep in their own beds, wake up in the morning, have a delicious…

— Daniel Tosh

We must have black troops, and a limitless number of them too - paid and treated like their white brothers.

— Benjamin Lincoln

Without our Veterans we wouldn't have one of the greatest gifts in life FREEDOM. Thanks for your bravery and sacrifices. Happy Veterans…

— Sonya Parker

A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death.

— Rick Riordan

I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look.

— Kenneth Williams

Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops.

— Joe Scarborough

We're not going to put the cart before the horse and just think by sending more troops, we're automatically going to make…

— Barack Obama

Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.

— Jared Diamond

I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.

— J. B. Smoove

Army requests immediate permission to surrender in order to save lives of remaining troops.

— Friedrich Paulus

Nothing is so good for the morale of the troops as occasionally to see a dead general.

— William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or…

— Chiang Kai-shek

Every country where the the United States maintains troops has a status of forces agreement.

— Richard Engel

If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an…

— Karen Hughes

I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected.

— William Westmoreland

General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.

— James Longstreet