Army Quotes - Page 18

• Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defence, the militia, is put in the hands of Congress?

  Patrick Henry

  Mean, Hands, Congress

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Samuel Bryan, Patrick Henry (2017). “The Federalist Papers & Anti-Federalist Papers: Complete Edition of the Pivotal Constitution Debate: Including Articles of Confederation (1777), Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights & Other Amendments – All With Founding Fathers’ Arguments & Decisions about the Constitution”, p.74, Madison & Adams Press

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• He wondered what kind of blueprint beavers had for creating such a structure-or did they simply start aimlessly weaving stuff together until they had a dam? Did they even think about creating a dam? Maybe dams were simply accidents that resulted from their fooling around, much like the Army Corps of Engineers' accomplishments.

  Patrick F. McManus

  Thinking, Rivers, Creating

  Patrick F. McManus (2011). “The Huckleberry Murders: A Sheriff Bo Tully Mystery”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• The exemplary vanguard role of the Communists is of vital importance. Communists in the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies should set an example in fighting bravely, carrying out orders, observing discipline, doing political work and fostering internal unity and solidarity.

  Mao Zedong

  Fighting, Order, Discipline

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.140, Lulu.com

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• The commanders and fighters of the entire Chinese People's Liberation Army absolutely must not relax in the least their will to fight; any thinking that relaxes the will to fight and belittles the enemy is wrong.

  Mao Zedong

  Peace, War, Fighting

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.42, Lulu.com

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• Preaching has always been the business of the Asiatics. The Western people are grand in organisation, social institutions, armies, governments, etc.; but when it comes to preaching religion, they cannot come near the Asiatic, whose business it has been all the time, and he knows it, and he does not use too much machinery.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Business, Government, People

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.48, editionNEXT.com

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• ...should We consent to an order of Cincinnati consisting of all the Officers of the Army & Citizens of Consiquence in the united States; how easy the Transition from a Republican to any other Form of Government, however despotic! & how rediculous to exchange a british Administration, for one that would be equally tyrannical, perhaps much more so? this project may answer the End of Courts that aim at making Us subservient to their political purposes, but can never be consistent with the Dignity or Happiness of the united States.

  Elbridge Gerry

  Government, Order, Political

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• This war is not as in the past; whoever occupies a territory also imposes on it his own social system. Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. It cannot be otherwise. If now there is not a communist government in Paris, this is only because Russia has no an army which can reach Paris in 1945.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Past, Russia

  "Conversations with Stalin". Book by Milovan Djilas, 1963.

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• The White House released documents it claims validates the president's (National Guard) service ... When deciphered the documents showed that in a one-year period, 1972 and 1973, Bush received credit for nine days of active National Guard service. The traditional term of service then and now for the National Guard is one weekend a month and two full weeks a year, meaning that Bush's nine-day stint qualifies him only for the National Guard's National Guard. That's the National Guard's National Guard, an Army of None.

  Jon Stewart

  Weekend, Years, Two

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• I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.

  Ani DiFranco

  Mediocrity, Hours, Finest

  Song: Not So Soft

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• Armies are not only for offensives.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Offensive

  "An Interview With Bashar Al-Assad". Interview to Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, www.memri.org. June 12, 2000.

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• Tens of millions of Americans who neither know or understand the actual arguments for, or even against, evolution, march in the Army of the Night with their Bibles held high

  Isaac Asimov

  Night, Evolution, March

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• No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches no great Universities nor public schools -- no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class -- no Epsom nor Ascot Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life.

  Henry James

  Loyalty, Country, School

  'Hawthorne' (1879)

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• In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.

  Herman Melville

  Order, Cities, Navy

  Herman Melville (2009). “Billy Budd and Other Tales”, p.140, Penguin

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

  Jim Talent

  Needs, Defense, Size

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• Google is my rapid response research assistant. It's the Swiss Army knife of information retrieval.

  Lloyd Grove

  Knives, Google, Research

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• We are each an army of one. March forward with your army, never let go of your future and never listen to idiots who tell you ‘no.’

  Johnny Weir

  Letting Go, March, Idiot

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• In time, the church will actually be organized more as a military force with an army, navy, air force, etc.

  Rick Joyner

  Military, Air, Navy

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• IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused

  Fritz Kreisler

  Confused, War, Trying

  Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.8, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Canada has sent an army of 1,000 soldiers to occupy the Muslim country of Afghanistan (and ships to the Persian Gulf).

  George Galloway

  Country, Soldier, Canada

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• What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins, what cities in ashes, what hunger and nakedness, what orphanages, what widowhood, what wrongs and what vengeance.

  Clara Barton

  War, Cities, Troops

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• The reason there are so many tree-lined boulevards in Paris is so the German army can march in the shade.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Paris, Tree

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• The Army War College has been a tradition in central Pennsylvania for years.

  Bill Shuster

  War, College, Years

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• I still remember the entire Boy Scout motto. I don't remember the serial number of my gun in the army. I don't remember the number of my locker in school. But I remember that Boy Scout code.

  Tommy Lasorda

  School, Gun, Boys

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• The only thing strong about the French Army is their damn body odor.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Strong, Wwe, Odor

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• Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers and scientists, and their contests determine the true triumph or defeat of nations.
  One scholar is matched with another; one creative mind with another; and one judicious temperament with his counterpart. A victory won on that field counts for three won by force of arms.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Kings, Creative, Mind

  "The Other World: Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon". Book by Cyrano de Bergerac, 1657.

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