Army Quotes - Page 10

• Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.

  John Dryden

  Drinking, Soldier, Navy

  'Alexander's Feast' (1697) l. 57

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• No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

  Samuel Johnson

  Funny, Men, Jail

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 16 Mar. 1759)

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

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Fighting, Winning, Doe

  "The Vietnam Negotiations". Foreign Affairs, Vol. 48, No. 2, p. 214, January 1969.

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• If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.

  Rupert Brooke

  Thinking, Navy, Fields

  "The Soldier" l. 1 (1914)

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  The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

  George S. Patton

  Country, Military, War

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A barracks is meant to be a place where real soldiers were to be fed and equipped for war, not a place to settle down in or as a comfortable snuggery in which to enjoy ourselves. I hope that if ever they, our soldiers, do settle down God will burn their barracks over their heads!

  Catherine Booth

  God, Hope, Real

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• We few. We happy few. We band of brothers, for he today That sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother.

  William Shakespeare

  Brother, Business, Military

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 35

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• In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkof was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harboured and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America. His answer..."I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Forgiveness, God, Jobs

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• What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.

  Lord Byron

  Art, Military, Views

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• Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and there is no more serious crime in the law of war. The Army says they never leave their wounded. The Marines say they never leave even their dead. These men have left all the casualties and retreated behind a pious shield of public rectitude. They have left the real stuff of their reputation bleaching behind them in the sun in this country.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Real, War

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• My men can eat their belts, but my tanks have gotta have gas.

  George S. Patton

  Men, Tanks, Belts

  "The Struggle for Europe". Book by Chester Wilmot, p. 473, 1972.

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• The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2003). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.408, Cambridge University Press

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• Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts - a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Marine, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.198, Graphic Arts Books

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• Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun

  Bruce Campbell

  Gun, Guy, Darkness

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• I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.

  Dave Brubeck

  War, Band, World

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• When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can't run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn't fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. As for the types of comments I make, sometimes I just, By God, get carried away with my own eloquence.

  George S. Patton

  Running, Nice, Party

  "General Patton's Address to the Troops". "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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• Cavalry is useful before, during, and after the battle.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, Battle, Cavalry

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• We are all members of the same great family ... On social occasions the formality of strictly military occasions should be relaxed, and a spirit of friendliness and goodwill should prevail.

  John A. Lejeune

  Military, Marine, Spirit

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• The army teaches boys to think like men.

  Elvis Presley

  Boys, Men, Thinking

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• I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Military, Humorous

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.60, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

  Thomas Paine

  Peace, War, 4th Of July

  "Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion".

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• None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gun Rights, Standing, Nations

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.166, Algora Publishing

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

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Mistake, Navy, Army Navy

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

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

  Franz Halder

  Enemy, Finishing, Left

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

  Desi Arnaz

  Doe, Littles, Way

  Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

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