Army Quote by Joseph Brodsky

An army is a diversion of energy from the productive life of a nation.

— Isabel Paterson

The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death.

— Homer

An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness.

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

The Gospel of the army is cunning, as of all other human activities. The wisdom of the snake under the meekness of the sheep…

— John Dos Passos

“Rather than offering an antidote to problems, the military system centered on the all-volunteer force bred and exacerbated them. It underwrote recklessness in the…

— Andrew J. Bacevich

“May God bless and keep all soldiers, young and old, and may that same God open the eyes of all political leaders to the…

— Harold G. Moore

In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the citizens of…

— Edward Gibbon

Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as…

— Theodore Parker

Job's avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it's strictly because God…

— George C. Williams

For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the…

— Abraham Lincoln

The army's original job description was to protect borders, but a demanding country depends on it for everything else too, from rebuilding bridges after…

— Barkha Dutt

It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them.

— Winston Churchill