Army Quotes
1821 Army quotes by 1119 unique authors
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The good NCO has never been short in confidence, either to perform the mission or to inform the superior that he or she was interfering…
— William G. Bainbridge
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Moral courage, to me, is much more demanding than physical courage.
— Unknown Author
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The equipment and weaponry will continually change and improve, and the size of the military will expand as needed, decreasing during times of peace. But…
— George W. Dunaway
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The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum. This was lost last fall when shortages caused by the…
— George C. Marshall
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To have command of the air means to be able to cut an enemy's army and navy off from their bases of operation and nullify…
— Giulio Douhet
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Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than…
— Sean O'Casey
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'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.
— William Shakespeare
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No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most generous and proudest…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.
— Rupert Brooke
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In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous…
— Edmund Burke
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What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and…
— Lord Byron
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The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.
— Winston Churchill
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War is too important a matter to be left to the military.
— Georges Clemenceau
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No army has ever done so much with so little.
— Douglas MacArthur
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Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys with M16s going, "Who'd you…
— Jon Stewart
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Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.
— Blake Clark
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