Army Quotes - Page 15

• If you were lost for America, there is nobody who could keep the army and the revolution [going] for six months.

  Marquis de Lafayette

  America, Six Months, Revolution

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• With regard to military discipline, I may safely say that no such thing existed in the Continental Army.

  Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

  Military, Discipline, History

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• The Army, as usual, are without pay; and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and though the patience of them is equally threadbare, the States seem perfectly indifferent to their cries.

  George Washington

  Usual, Pay, Revolution

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• Away with your president! We shall have a king... the army will salute him as monarch; your militia will leave you and assist in making him king and fight against you. And what have you to oppose this force? What will then become of you and your rights?

  Patrick Henry

  Kings, Fighting, Rights

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Samuel Bryan, Patrick Henry (2017). “Federalist vs. Anti-Federalist: The Great Debate (Complete Articles & Essays in One Volume): Words that Traced the Path of the Nation - Founding Fathers’ Political and Philosophical Debate, Their Opinions and Arguments about the Constitution”, p.83, Madison & Adams Press

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• The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month.

  William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe

  Night, Rebel, Done

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• There's not much makeup in the army, is there? No. They only have that nighttime look, and that's a bit slapdash, isn't it?

  Eddie Izzard

  Funny, Makeup, Looks

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• Many sections are taken up with political discussions and how the way of the ruler, the merchant, the householder, and the army interact with the Tao.

  Frederick Lenz

  Taken, Political, Taoism

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• I've always thought that Boathouse Row looked best at night, when hundreds of electric lights outline the shape of each building, truning them into fantastic postcard themes. I knew, however, from many visits to Boathouse Row, that at the same time, armies of rats were holding maneuvers in the basements.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Night, Light, Shapes

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• Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top.

  Camille Paglia

  College, Records, Wave

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• 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.

  Roy Blunt

  Stupid, Ebay, Rifles

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• If the Army helped towards my tuition fees I would then give them four years of my life.

  James Blunt

  Stupid, Years, Giving

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• With respect to drugs, you know, there are a lot of organizations, including an enormous budget and an army at the federal government level that tries to deal with the drug problem.

  Burke Marshall

  Government, Organization, Drug

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• The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.

  Sherrod Brown

  Creating, People, Progress

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• Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming, you have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it's going to come in handy all the time.

  Bill Watterson

  Meaningful, Jobs, Book

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, our army and our navy... Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense is in the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors... You have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Doors, Sea

  "The Writings of Abraham Lincoln" by Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 5, (pp. 6-7), 2004.

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• One of George Washington's main concerns was to make sure that his soldiers had adequate supplies of meat: A part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three or four days. Naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their suffering to a general mutiny and dispersion.

  George Washington

  Kindness, Soldier, Suffering

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• Never in history has the navy landed an army at the planned time and place. But if you land us anywhere within 50 miles of Fedela and within 1 week of D-Day. I'll go ahead and win.

  George S. Patton

  War, Winning, Land

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• Vietnam remains an underdeveloped economy with a high poverty incidence, ... party, people and army will continue to stand united and ... turn Vietnam into a developed country in the coming decades.

  Tran ?uc Luong

  Country, War, Party

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• When the injustice is great enough, justice will lend me the strength needed to correct it. None may stand against it. It will shatter every barrier, sunder any shield, tear through any enchantment, and lend its servant the power to pass sentence. Know this: There is nothing on all the Planes that can stay the hand of justice when it is brought against them. It may unmake armies. It may sunder the thrones of gods. Know that for all who betray justice, I am their fate. And fate carries an executioner's axe.

  Chris Avellone

  Fate, Hands, Justice

  "Planescape: Torment". Video Game, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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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 the best way to get there. A river knows better-:it has to do with how it dissipates the energy of its flow most efficiently; and how, in its bends, the sediment deposited soon turns into marshes and swampy islands, harboring all manner of interesting life, imparting charm and character to the whole waterway. I would defy you to find a river on this planet that prefers to run straight, unless it has been taught so by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

  Thomas W. Horton

  Running, Growing Up, Distance

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• 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

  Military, War, Hippie

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• It was man who ended the Cold War in case you didn't notice. It wasn't weaponry, or technology, or armies or campaigns. It was just man. Not even Western man either, as it happened, but our sworn enemy in the East, who went into the streets, faced the bullets and the batons and said: we've had enough. It was their emperor, not ours, who had the nerve to mount the rostrum and declare he had no clothes. And the ideologies trailed after these impossible events like condemned prisoners, as ideologies do when they've had their day.

  John le Carre

  War, Technology, Men

  "The Secret Pilgrim". Book by John le Carré, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1990.

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• 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 down to the level of the weakest man on parade.... The deeper the discipline, the lower was the individual excellence; also the more sure the performance.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Military, Men, Ninety Nine

  T. E. Lawrence (2013). “Seven Pillars of Wisdom”, p.349, Black House Publishing Ltd

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• 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 less than 2000 men in the whole.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Men, Evening, December

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• Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Evil, Police, States

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