Quotes on Army

The way the Army does things is sometimes a little strange.

Author: Desi Arnaz

Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.

Author: Henri Barbusse

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

Author: Alexander Bell

Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.

Author: Ahmed Bella

From their point of view, I had gone too far. I had to disappear. That is to say, if the Algerian army had not overthrown me, others would have done so.

Author: Ahmed Bella

Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once.

Author: Roy Blunt

An army marches on its stomach.

Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

The army is the true nobility of our country.

Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

As an active member of the Air Force, Army and Mine Warfare Caucuses, I meet with enlisted personnel and officers on a regular basis to learn more about their needs, both on the job and with their families.

Author: Allen Boyd

The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season.

Author: Martin Buren

Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.

Author: Will Carleton

Two new reports indicate that, under Bush, the Army is overstretched and under enormous strain. The National Guard and reserves have been weakened and we are experiencing numerous recruiting problems.

Author: Jim Clyburn

The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.

Author: Barry Commoner

I had a tremendous horror of going into the Army. That is probably why I went to college for so long.

Author: Bruce Conner

I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.

Author: Billy Connolly

All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army.

Author: Richard Davis

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

Author: Daniel Defoe

In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not knowing anything... I can only conjecture what could have happened.

Author: Alexander Dubcek

Why would it be ridiculous that Quebec has an army?

Author: Gilles Duceppe

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

Author: Arthur Eddington

The sergeant is the Army.

Author: Dwight Eisenhower

You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army.

Author: Richard Foreman

If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.

Author: Frederick Frederick II

Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away.

Author: Hayden Fry

I felt we really couldn't be separated that much. I'd had a baby, and I was traveling and working alone while he was in the Army. It was very difficult-the phone calls and all of that. I really was very depressed.

Author: Eydie Gorme

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Author: Alexander Great

When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.

Author: Dick Gregory

Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.

Author: George Grosz

The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.

Author: Franz Halder

A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.

Author: James Harrington

Those who served, and those who continue to serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard took an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and we can never forget the importance of their commitment to our Nation.

Author: Robin Hayes

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

Author: George Herbert

Never try to take a fortified hill, especially if the Army on top is bigger than you are.

Author: William Hewlett

There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent.

Author: Daniel Hill

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 to hold out.

Author: Paul Hindenburg

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

Author: Thomas Jefferson

At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.

Author: Tahar Jelloun

As many will remember, a respected Army Corps economist filed a whistleblower complaint about the Corps' use of faulty data to justify lock and dam expansion.

Author: Ron Kind

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

Author: Henry Kissinger

The army is under orders to defend every place.

Author: Helmut Kohl

We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army.

Author: Gustav Krupp

I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.

Author: Robert Lee

I wanted to join the Army the sign said 'Be All That You Can Be', they told me it wasn't enough.

Author: Jay London

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

Author: Henry Longfellow

Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.

Author: Brian Lumley

The Army was my bread and butter.

Author: Brian Lumley

We have, therefore, directed the Irish Army authorities to have field hospitals established in County Donegal adjacent to Derry and at other points along the Border where they may be necessary.

Author: Jack Lynch

At the end of the day, though, the band members have to be strong. It's down to the individuals in the unit. Listen to me, I'm talking like I'm in the army and this is my squadron.

Author: Shirley Manson

One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.

Author: Jose Marti

I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else.

Author: Bill Mauldin

I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.

Author: Marissa Mayer

Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.

Author: Wendell Mayes

The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may require the protection of a national army.

Author: Thomas Meagher

Bring the army of the faithful through.

Author: George Meredith

The army did what Milosevic's regime asked of it, which was to create a 'Greater Serbia'.

Author: Stjepan Mesic

I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.

Author: James Michener

How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.

Author: Spike Milligan

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

Author: Ted Morgan

The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.

Author: Alex Morrison

The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile.

Author: Benito Mussolini

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

Author: Barney Oliver

Of course, the kind of support that Cuba could give us was very limited when it came to building up our army, since they didn't manufacture armaments in the quantities that we required. So we turned to Algeria and the Soviet Union for support.

Author: Daniel Ortega

The highly skilled workers at Lima have enabled the plant to grow far beyond its original mission, now providing a wide variety of cutting-edge military vehicles and equipment to the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.

Author: Michael Oxley

It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.

Author: Adnan Pachachi

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.

Author: Jimmy Page

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

Author: Thomas Paine

It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.

Author: John Passos

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

Author: Colin Powell

I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.

Author: Simon Raven

Most of the services staff is for the larger corporations, not so much for small and medium businesses because they cannot afford an extensive services army.

Author: Kevin Rollins

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

Author: Isaac Rosenberg

The responsibility of commanding the invasion fell to me, and the task was assigned to my Army Group.

Author: Gerd Rundstedt

With this announcement today, the Army has made it clear what we have known all along - that Fort Riley is truly the crown jewel of the United States Army.

Author: Jim Ryun

Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.

Author: John Selden

I am in suspense as to the probable or improbability of being called into the Army, a station I would prefer to any other that of being in arms to defend an injured and grossly insulted country.

Author: John Sevier

If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.

Author: William Sherman

During the 2000 election, the current administration told our military, help is on the way. That is clearly not the case. The administration has failed to request the funds needed for the defense of this Nation. We must give the Army what it needs.

Author: Ike Skelton

They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army - thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old.

Author: Eddie Slovik

Just look at the Old Testament. They didn't go out with the army first. They sent the musicians out.

Author: Michael Smith

With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate that grew worse throughout the year, waged in part by soldiers of the disbanded army and in part by criminals who were released from prison.

Author: John Spratt

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.

Author: Joseph Stalin

I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.

Author: Jack Steinberger

If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army.

Author: Casey Stengel

Many of our soldiers are stationed at Camp Coyote just south of the Iraqi border. This is how you know we have a strong army, when you can actually tell your enemy exactly where your camp is and what its name is.

Author: Jon Stewart

As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants.

Author: Gustav Stresemann

In this respect I expressed my doubts about using the Corps directly on the South coast, to form a bridgehead for the Army - as the area immediately behind the coast was now covered with obstacles. These doubts were accepted by Hitler.

Author: Kurt Student

We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

Author: Gloria Swanson

But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy. Everything had to be done over by the Army after it had already been done by the Air Corps, a mess.

Author: Stuart Symington

When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.

Author: Antonio Tabucchi

We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.

Author: James Talent

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Author: Charles Talleyrand

A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then.

Author: John Templeton

The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army.

Author: Robert Trout

We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?

Author: Dalton Trumbo

Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.

Author: Sun Tzu

The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally.

Author: Mark Udall

I am now the target of the most powerful man in this country, with an army of aides whose major responsibility today seems to be to attack me and get rid of me.

Author: Gerald Walpin

General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York.

Author: Mercy Warren

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

Author: Duke Wellington

As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.

Author: Allen West

I've been extremely lucky having been in the army when I was a boy of fourteen.

Author: Norman Wisdom

I owe everything to the army.

Author: Norman Wisdom

You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.

Author: James Wolfe

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

Author: Mao Zedong

Military police is very timely for our army.

Author: Vladimir Zhirinovsky