Armies Quotes
287 Armies quotes by 219 unique authors
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Doth not all nature around me praise God? If I were silent, I should be an exception to the universe. Doth not the thunder praise…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Then Arjuma saw in both armies fathers, grandfathers, sons, grandsons; fathers of wives, uncles, masters; brothers companions and friends. . . . When Arjuna thus…
— Juan Mascaro
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When great armies go to war, Sorrow is the sole winner.
— Laozi
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The last and most painful irony is that the two longtime rival armies in the securitization market - the investment banks and the GSEs -…
— Bethany McLean
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That the people have a Right to mass and to bear arms; that a well regulated militia composed of the Body of the people, trained…
— George Mason
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Heaven, too, was very near to them in those days. God's direct agency was to be seen in the thunder and the rainbow, the whirlwind…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and…
— Mark Twain
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We may look up to Armies for Defence, but Virtue is our best Security. It is not possible that any state should long remain free,…
— Samuel Adams
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Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover…
— Patrick Henry
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The example of changing a constitution by assembling the wise men of the state, instead of assembling armies, will be worth as much to the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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They (the Jews) work more effectively against us, than the enemy's armies. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties and the great…
— George Washington
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I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of Eden's roses…
— Alexander Smith
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The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil…
— Walter Lippmann
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Only from chaos does order come. The angry Fates bring death where they will, when war is king, says Enlil, storm god of the armies,…
— Janet Morris
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It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine - a gun - which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man…
— Unknown Author
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The armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon are poised on the borders of Israel ... to face the challenge, while standing behind us are…
— Gamal Abdel Nasser
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It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them.
— Winston Churchill
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The Constitution expressly and exclusively vests in the Legislature the power of declaring a state of war [and] the power of raising armies.... A delegation…
— James Madison
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Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished.
— Immanuel Kant
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We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence —…
— John F. Kennedy
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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini's armies in Albania, on the Greek frontier, one wasn't sure what came next. So,…
— Alan Furst
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Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact…
— Frank Herbert
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The struggle now going on for the world will never be decided by bombs or rockets, by armies or military might. The real crisis we…
— Ronald Reagan
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After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers.
— Unknown Author
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This manual of the Communist Party should be in the hands of every loyal American, that they may be alerted to the fact that it…
— Kenneth Goff
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