Armies Quotes
287 Armies quotes by 219 unique authors
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The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people…
— William Cobbett
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Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a…
— Frederick The Great
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Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or…
— Samuel Adams
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.…
— James Madison
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If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.
— Scilla Elworthy
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There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be…
— Sun Tzu
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The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is…
— Joseph Story
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...to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect the rights and…
— James Madison
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If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man…
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators. Your wealth has been stripped of you by…
— Frederick Stanley Maude
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I am quite confident that in the foreseeable future armed conflict will not take the form of huge land armies facing each other across extended…
— Norman Schwarzkopf
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We are determined to defeat them and destroy them on the walls of our capital, as we are determined to destroy their miserable armies in…
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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I'd like to have two armies: one for display with lovely guns, tanks, little soldiers, staffs, distinguished and doddering generals, and dear little regimental officers…
— Jean Larteguy
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It is useless to send armies against ideas.
— Georg Brandes
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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.
— Mona Caird
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In the armies, and among every ten men, there must be one of more life, of more heart, or at least of more authority, who…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we…
— Maximilian Kolbe
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When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile…
— H. H. Asquith
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The home front is always underrated by Generals in the field. And yet that is where the Great War was won and lost. The Russian,…
— David Lloyd George
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On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia...
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought.
— Saddam Hussein
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The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in the…
— Norman Thomas
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Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.
— Charles Horton Cooley
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