Army Quotes
1821 Army quotes by 1119 unique authors
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Soldiers are members of a profession of arms which has existed virtually unchanged for thousands of years- far longer than most other human institutions have…
— William A. Connelly
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We build character in order for us to withstand the rigors of combat and resist the temptations to compromise our principles in peacetime. We must…
— Glen E. Morrell
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A code of ethics cannot be developed overnight by edict or official pronouncement. It is developed by years of practice and performance of duty according…
— Silas L. Copeland
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People value honesty. They value integrity. They value competence and courage and all those kinds of things.
— Richard A. Kidd
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The trust, confidence, and support given to us by our chain of command, and the tenacity of the great noncommissioned officers of the past, have…
— Julius W. Gates
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Soldiers must possess integrity in order to build trust and confidence in themselves, our leadership, and the American public. Among the things I've learned during…
— Glen E. Morrell
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The core of a soldier is moral discipline. It is intertwined with the discipline of physical and mental achievement. It motivates doing on your own…
— William G. Bainbridge
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Without self-discipline, a noncommissioned officer can never develop or maintain personal integrity.
— Silas L. Copeland
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Professional courage is the steel fiber that makes an NCO unafraid and willing to tell it like it is. The concept of professional courage does…
— William A. Connelly
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The greatness of our Army has always been the ability of our soldiers who serve in the ranks to rise to the challenge against the…
— Julius W. Gates
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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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