Army Quotes

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We grow up hearing so often that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points that we end up thinking it is also… — Thomas W. Horton
Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war. — Peter DeFazio
In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played… — T.E. Lawrence
On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to… — Mercy Otis Warren
Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army. — Vladimir Lenin
We stand for self-reliance. We hope for foreign aid but cannot be dependent on it; we depend on our own efforts, on the creative power… — Mao Zedong
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. — Arthur Eddington
So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty… — Agnes Smedley
The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the… — Lewis H. Lapham
You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers. — James Wolfe
Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies. — Robert Louis Stevenson
I owe everything to the army. — Norman Wisdom
Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent… — Elliott Carter
I regret that the Army felt it was necessary to rescind their invitation to the National Day of Prayer Task Force to participate in the… — Franklin Graham
It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression. — Che Guevara
Soldiers are the foundation of an army; unless they are imbued with a progressive political spirit, and unless such a spirit is fostered through progressive… — Mao Zedong
We were taught to be dependable, responsible, the top of our classes at school, the most organized and efficient babysitters in town, the very miniature… — Elizabeth Gilbert
How's his appendix?""Like crap. They almost didn't catch it in time, and he's still doing the ass-plant in a hospital bed, beingdoted on by an… — Marjorie M. Liu
In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue… — Paul von Hindenburg
The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild… — Mark Udall
Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth. — Duke of Wellington
It takes us long to learn that prayer is more important than organization, more powerful than armies, more influential than wealth and mightier than all… — Samuel Chadwick
As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot… — Edwin Percy Whipple
We also very importantly recommend continued growth in the Army and the Marine Corps end strength. — John M. McHugh
The armies of the day have chased the army of the night, Heaven and earth are filled with purity and light. — Unknown Author

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