Troops Quotes - Page 15

• Australian troops had, at Milne Bay, inflicted on the Japanese their first undoubted defeat on land. Some of us may forget that, of all the allies, it was the Australians who first broke the invincibility of the Japanese army.

  William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

  Military, Army, Land

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• These mercenaries, I swear by God, those who are still in Washington, they have sent their troops to be burned.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Burned

  "Sahaf: U.S. troops will be burned". www.cnn.com. April 7, 2003.

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• The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise lay plans against you.

  Sun Tzu

  Wise, Art, War

  Sun Tzu, Shang Yang (1997). “The Art of War”, p.32, Wordsworth Editions

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• This fight has nothing to do with soldierly gallantry or principles of the Geneva Convention. If the fight against the partisans is not waged with the most brutal means, we will shortly reach the point where the available forces are insufficient to control the area. It is therefore not only justified, but it is the duty of the troops to use all means without restriction, even against women and children, so long as it ensures success.

  Wilhelm Keitel

  Children, War, Mean

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• Because of you, in Afghanistan we've broken the momentum of the Taliban. Because of you, we've begun a transition to the Afghans that will allow us to bring our troops home from there. And around the globe, as we draw down in Iraq, we have gone after al Qaeda so that terrorists who threaten America will have no safe haven, and Osama bin Laden will never again walk the face of this Earth.

  Barack Obama

  War, Home, Safe Haven

  Obama's Speech to Troops at Fort Bragg, www.nytimes.com. December 14, 2011.

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• A professional football team warms up grimly and disparately, like an army on maneuvers: the ground troops here, the tanks there, the artillery and air force over there.

  Ted Solotaroff

  Football, Team, Army

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• Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an eternity charged with its annals, possesses its realms of dim and shadowy fields, in which troops of fancies already walk like disembodied ghosts in the old fields of Elysium, and which bid fair to be quite dark and uncertain enough for all the purposes of poesy for centuries to come.

  Hugh Miller

  Jealous, Dark, Science

  Hugh Miller, Harriet Myrtle (1859). “Popular Geology: A Series of Lectures Read Before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh, with Descriptive Sketches from a Geologist's Portfolio”, p.127

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• America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.

  James Madison

  Ambition, America, Soldier

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the new constitution, written in 1788, with an appendix, containing the letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the proclamation of neutrality of 1793, also the original articles of confederation and the constitution of the United States”, p.188

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• American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Anniversary, War, Iraq

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• With 450,000 U. S. troops now in Vietnam, it is time that Congress decided whether or not to declare a state of war exists with North Vietnam. Previous congressional resolutions of support provide only limited authority. Although Congress may decide that the previously approved resolution on Vietnam given President Johnson is sufficient, the issue of a declaration of war should at least be put before the Congress for decision.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Issues, Decision

  Remarks to Republican congressmen, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 15, 1967.

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• Our firm view is that the president has no legal authority, none whatsoever, to commit American troops to war in the Persian Gulf or anywhere else without congressional authorization.

  George J. Mitchell

  War, Views, President

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• I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation building.

  George W. Bush

  War, Thinking, Building

  Presidential Debate in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, October 11, 2000.

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• Don't believe stories which you see in the papers about troops asking as a special privilege not to be relieved. We stick it, at all costs if necessary, as long as ordered, but everyone's glad to hand over to someone else. And anyone who says he enjoys this kind of thing is either a liar or a madman.

  Harry Yoxall

  War, Liars, Believe

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• We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like this: English and German Protestants; Northern Irish, Welsh and Canadians; Irish and German Catholics; Scots; Mohammedan Indians; Algerians; Portugese; Belgians; French. We put the Belgians and French there for spite; they could not have been dirtier than the Algerians and the Portugese.

  Robert Graves

  War, Taken, Order

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• Certainly I shall use the police, and most ruthlessly, whenever the German people are hurt. But I refuse the notion that the police are protective troops for Jewish stores. No, the police protect whoever comes into Germany legitimately, but it does not exist for the purpose of protecting Jewish money-lenders.

  Hermann Goring

  Hurt, People, History

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• Don't apologize for being patriotic. Support the troops

  Toby Keith

  Patriotic, Support, Apologizing

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• The Iraqi troops and the Iraqi fighters are in control of all the places, as we have witnessed, no big change in that. We are fighting against them.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Fighting

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• The infantryman slithers in the mud, while many teams of horses are needed to drag each gun forward. All wheeled vehicles sink up to their axles in the slime. Even tractors can only move with great difficulty. A large portion of our heavy artillery was soon stuck fast... The strain that all this caused our already exhausted troops can perhaps be imagined.

  Gunther Blumentritt

  Horse, Military, Team

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• A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades. Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep way, he received this reply, " I must follow them. I am their leader."

  Abbott Lawrence Lowell

  Leadership, Men, Paris

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• Withdrawal of US troops will become like salted peanuts to the American public: The more US troops come home, the more will be demanded.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Home, Withdrawal, Peanuts

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• For a prince should have two fears: one, internal concerning his subjects; the other, external, concerning foreign powers. From the latter he can always defend himself by his good troops and friends; and he will always have good friends if he has good troops.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Good Friend, Should Have, Two

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.97, Penguin

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• We're all looking for a plan that will work. The current plan is not working, and 21,500 additional troops -- it's a snowball in July. It's not going to work.

  Arlen Specter

  July, Currents, Going To Work

  "Senate Republicans divided in dissent on Iraq". NBC News, January 30, 2007.

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• The troops of other states have their reputation to gain, the sons of the Alamo have theirs to maintain.

  Jefferson Davis

  Son, Gains, Reputation

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• Now that our troops are mired in a dangerous effort to defeat the insurgency and are also trying to help rebuild the country, Americans of all political persuasions simply want the United States to succeed and our troops to be as safe as possible.

  Harry Reid

  Country, Effort, Political

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• What I'm suggesting is we are going to look back, and we're going to see what happened in Syria, and we're going to see the larger destabilization of the Middle East, the rise of extremism, and we're going to wonder... Why didn't we at least try to force a political solution - at an acceptable cost to us, because no one is saying we should send in ground troops - and if we did it would be worse than doing nothing... If we do not act, we are going to look back and wonder why we didn't.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Thought Provoking, Political, Trying

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