Army Navy Quotes - Page 2

• The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Mistake, Army, Navy

  Attributed in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Jail, Sailing

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 348 (16 March 1759).

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• I can assure our countrymen that India is safe in the hands of the brave warriors of our Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard.

  Narendra Modi

  Army, Warrior, Air

  Source: www.deccanchronicle.com

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

  Herman Melville

  Army, Order, Cities

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

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• I believe that when we overdo our military aggressiveness, what it does it actually weakens our national defense. I mean, we stood up to the Soviets. They had 40,000 nuclear weapons. Now we're fretting day in and day - night about third-world countries that have no army, navy or air force.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Military, Believe

  The Republicans' first Presidential candidates debate at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.

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• You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Marine, Army, Thinking

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• Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

  Camille Paglia

  Strong, New York, Military

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• I have just realized that it is due to you, and to Mr. James Thomas and his staff of the Army Navy Country Club that the putting green here on the White House lawn is already in such excellent condition. I assure you that I get a great deal of pleasure and relaxation out of using the green in an occasional late afternoon hour . . .

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Country, Army

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• I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.

  Babette March

  New York, Army, Navy

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• Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic countries; but schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications, and if they are dismantled and dilapidated, ignorance and vice will pour in their legions through every breach.

  Horace Mann

  Country, Ignorance, Mean

  Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1841). “Common School Journal”, p.271

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• As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that will be the beginning of civilization.

  Jacque Fresco

  Army, Civilization, Long

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• 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.

  Michael Oxley

  Military, Cutting, Marine

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• In times of crisis our nation depends on the courage and determination of the Guard. You know the call of active duty can come at any time. You stand ready to put your lives on hold and answer that call, ... And you did so because you love your state and your country. America appreciates your courageous decision to serve. Together with your comrades in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Reserves, you are showing that patriotism is alive and well in Idaho and throughout the United States.

  George H. W. Bush

  Country, Courage, Determination

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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, Army, Air

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