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Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defence, the militia, is put in the hands of Congress? — Patrick Henry
The exemplary vanguard role of the Communists is of vital importance. Communists in the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies should set an example in… — Mao Zedong
Preaching has always been the business of the Asiatics. The Western people are grand in organisation, social institutions, armies, governments, etc.; but when it comes… — Swami Vivekananda
Armies are not only for offensives. — Bashar al-Assad
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery. — Herman Melville
What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins,… — Clara Barton
Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers and scientists, and… — Cyrano de Bergerac
No armies are needed, no weapons are needed, no nations are needed, no religions are needed. All that is needed is a little meditativeness, a… — Rajneesh
One might almost say, to adapt von Clausewitz, that modern warfare is PR by other means. And war-winning strategies mean that modern armies most stop… — David Frum
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going to… — Stephen Ambrose
Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a hush over all Europe, nay, over all the world. Alas! it is the hush of suspense, and in many lands it is… — Winston Churchill
It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe… — Jonathan Swift
I believe that our Great Maker is preparing the world, in His own good time, to become one nation, speaking one language, and when armies… — Ulysses S. Grant
The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life… — Rebecca Harding Davis
In this world we see more passion than dispassion. We see more fear than knowledge. Armies rule the world. Fear-net is happening. Consequently, everyone is… — Frederick Lenz
Do not ever threaten an Afghan with violence. We will rise as one and we will face every threat the way we have taken on… — Ashraf Ghani
Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march… — Mahmoud Darwish
Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies. — John R. Allen
There are routes not to be followed, armies not to be attacked, citadels not to be besieged, territory not to be fought over. — Sun Tzu
Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster. — Chuck Hagel
We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation. — Bernard Cornwell
And nothing formed against me shall stand. You hold the whole world in Your hands. I'm holding onto Your promises. You are faithful. You are… — Chris Tomlin
The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a… — C.S. Lewis
The compelling thing about making art—or making anything, I suppose—is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance… — Audrey Niffenegger

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