Best Armies Words
287 Armies quotes by 219 unique authors
-
Hostile armies may face each other for years, striving for the victory which is decided in a single day. This being so, to remain in…
— Sun Tzu
-
Suppose we were (as we might be) an influence, an idea, a thing intangible, invulnerable, without front or back, drifting about like a gas? Armies…
— T.E. Lawrence
-
So long as large armies go to battle, so long will the air arm remain their spearhead.
— Cyril Falls
-
Thorn bushes grow where armies have camped.
— Laozi
-
When equal armies battle, the grieving one will be victorious.
— Laozi
-
Smuggling poems out of prison in the soles of mt shoes i'm way past finding salvation in the arms of a woman, I look out…
— Raegan Butcher
-
The German Army is tired. The vain effort to defeat Russia's armies has used up its equipment and reduced its morale.
— Walther von Brauchitsch
-
National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
— J F C Fuller
-
Adherence to dogmas has destroyed more armies and cost more battles than anything in war.
— J F C Fuller
-
The American soldier demonstrated that, properly equipped, trained and led, he has no superior among all the armies of the world.
— Lucian
-
Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
-
When a king speaks, the armies move. But when a wise man speaks, only the beard shakes.
— Vinoba Bhave
-
A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air Burns frore, and cold…
— John Milton
-
The dual substance of Christ- the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain God... has always been a deep inscrutable mystery to me.…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
-
Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
— Dora Russell
-
It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their…
— Confucius
-
One of the strangest catastrophes that is in any history. A great king, with strong armies and mighty fleets, a great treasure and powerful allies,…
— Gilbert Burnet
-
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need…
— J. Michael Straczynski
-
May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with…
— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
-
The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
— Tacitus
-
With intelligence and humility and dedication as our ammunition, we can wage the peace throughout the world with a strength beyond armies, destroying nothing except…
— Paul G. Hoffman
-
In later years, it was common, and I was guilty in this respect, to question the motives of those who joined the new British armies…
— Sean Lemass
-
If a nation has not God that nation must fall, but if a nation has God then all the powers of evil, and all the…
— Taylor Caldwell
-
My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can…
— Alfred Nobel
-
If goods don't cross borders, armies will.
— Frederic Bastiat
More Ways to Read Armies Quotes
Who Wrote These Armies Quotes
219 authors contributed a total of 287 Armies Quotes, led by these top contributors: