Army Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• 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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• We stand for self-reliance. We hope for foreign aid but cannot be dependent on it; we depend on our own efforts, on the creative power of the whole army and the entire people.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Self, People

  Zedong Mao (1967). “Selected Works”

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• If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

  Arthur Eddington

  Book, Writing, Museums

  The Nature of the Physical World ch. 4 (1928)

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• You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.

  James Wolfe

  Fear, Numbers, Force

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• I regret that the Army felt it was necessary to rescind their invitation to the National Day of Prayer Task Force to participate in the Pentagon's special prayer service. I want to express my strong support for the United States military and all our troops. I will continue to pray that God will give them guidance, wisdom and protection as they serve this great country.

  Franklin Graham

  Country, Strong, Regret

  "Franklin Graham Regrets Army's Decision to Rescind Invite to Pentagon Prayer Service", www.foxnews.com. April 22, 2010.

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• It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression.

  Che Guevara

  Ruins, Revolution, Republican

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• In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out.

  Paul von Hindenburg

  Afterlife, Battle, Would Be

  Paul von Hindenburg (1921). “Out of My Life”

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• The armies of the day have chased the army of the night, Heaven and earth are filled with purity and light.

  Rumi

  Night, Light, Heaven

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.45, Lulu.com

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• On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose, Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend . . . He reached a middle height, and at the stars, Which are the brain of heaven, he looked, and sank. Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.

  George Meredith

  Stars, Tired, Dark

  'Lucifer in Starlight'

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• With this announcement today, the Army has made it clear what we have known all along - that Fort Riley is truly the crown jewel of the United States Army.

  Jim Ryun

  Jewels, America, United States

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• We also very importantly recommend continued growth in the Army and the Marine Corps end strength.

  John M. McHugh

  Marine, Growth, Ends

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• Be heroes in an army of construction.

  Helen Keller

  Hero, Construction

  Helen Keller's Speech at Carnegie Hall, New York City, under the auspices of the Women's Peace Party and the Labor Forum, January 5, 1916.

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• If you remove the English army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain.

  James Connolly

  Effort, Flags, Dublin

  James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.124, Pluto Press

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• You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won’t. Especially not astrophysicists -we see the biggest picture there is. We understand how small we are in the cosmos. We understand how fragile and temporary our existence is here on Earth. We understand there are bigger problems we need to solve as a species than what God you pray to.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Battle, Needs, Cosmos

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• With the backdrop of The Salvation Army's century and a half of service to the world's poor, these songs and reflections are born of meaningful engagement with a living Gospel

  Sara Groves

  Meaningful, Song, Reflection

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• Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us the spirit of resistance, has made us think we cannot look after ourselves or put up a defense against foreign aggression, or even defend our homes and families.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Crush, Home, Thinking

  Mahatma Gandhi (1930). “Young India”

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• The eyes of mankind will be upon you to see whether the Government, which is now more popular than it has been for many years past, will be productive of more virtue moral and political. We may look up to Armies for our Defense, but Virtue is our best Security. It is not possible that any State should long remain free, where Virtue is not supremely honored.

  Samuel Adams

  Eye, Past, Government

  Massachusetts Historical Society, John Adams, Samuel Adams, James Warren (1917). “Warren-Adams Letters: Being Chiefly a Correspondence Among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren ... 1743-1814”

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• I am the best damn ass-kicker in the whole U.S. Army!

  George S. Patton

  Kickers, Ass, Damn

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• I didn't want to work at Pizza Hut and I didn't want to join the Army. So I just decided to go out and be awesome.

  Henry Rollins

  Want, Pizza, Decided

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• At the end of the day, though, the band members have to be strong. It's down to the individuals in the unit. Listen to me, I'm talking like I'm in the army and this is my squadron.

  Shirley Manson

  Strong, Talking, The End Of The Day

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• I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors.

  James Earl Jones

  New York, Rights, Black

  "James Earl Jones on Vision". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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