Army Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Obviously we don't have 300 million people. We haven't got a big army. We don't have Hollywood. We're a medium small-sized country. We have to do what medium small-sized countries do, which-even though we're not smarter than other people-is to make ourselves seem to be smarter. We have to work harder and know more than other people.

  John Ralston Saul

  Country, Hard Work, People

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

  Bill Shuster

  War, College, Years

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• In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going to rest on who could do the best job of bringing up their kids to become efficient and effective soldiers. That's pretty grandiose, I guess, but I do think that, and thank God it's been the armies of democracy that have emerged from this as the triumphant armies.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Peace, Jobs, War

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• One might almost say, to adapt von Clausewitz, that modern warfare is PR by other means. And war-winning strategies mean that modern armies most stop treating their communications operations as secondary assignments or (as still too often happens) dumping grounds for officers who have failed at everything else - but as missions absolutely essential to success.

  David Frum

  Peace, War, Communication

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• The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love - surely one of the most despicable forms of barter that can exchange human hands.

  Fannie Hurst

  Divorce, Men, Hands

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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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• 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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• The Army is the most outstanding institution in every country, for it alone makes possible the existence of all civic institutions.

  Helmuth James Graf von Moltke

  Country, Military, Institutions

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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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• Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.

  John R. Allen

  Military, Weakness, Planning

  "Withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan halfway done, top commander says". www.foxnews.com. July 23, 2012.

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• Away with your president! We shall have a king... the army will salute him as monarch; your militia will leave you and assist in making him king and fight against you. And what have you to oppose this force? What will then become of you and your rights?

  Patrick Henry

  Kings, Fighting, Rights

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Samuel Bryan, Patrick Henry (2017). “Federalist vs. Anti-Federalist: The Great Debate (Complete Articles & Essays in One Volume): Words that Traced the Path of the Nation - Founding Fathers’ Political and Philosophical Debate, Their Opinions and Arguments about the Constitution”, p.83, Madison & Adams Press

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• [T]he army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me.

  Truman Capote

  World, Might, March

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.69, Vintage

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• When contemplating General Eisenhower winning the Presidential election, Truman said, Hell sit here, and hell say, Do this! Do that! And nothing will happen. Poor Ikeit wont be a bit like the Army. Hell find it very frustrating.

  Harry S. Truman

  Winning, Presidential, Election

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• It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are.

  Jonathan Swift

  Strong, Believe, Light

  Jonathan Swift (1857). “The works of Dean Swift: comprising A tale of a tub, The battle of the books, with thoughts and essays on various subjects, together with The Dean's advice to a young lady on her marriage”, p.250

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• Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your grip.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Letting Go, Jobs, Mistake

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• It is necessary to have party organization if we are to have effective and efficient government. The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization, and the only difference between a disorganized country and one that has the advantage of a wise and sound government is fundamentally a question of organization.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Wise, Country, Party

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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• There was no room in God's army for the coward heart, no crown awaiting him who put mother or father, sister or brother, sweetheart or friend above God's will. Let the church cry amen to this!

  James A. Baldwin

  Mother, Brother, Father

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• I believe that our Great Maker is preparing the world, in His own good time, to become one nation, speaking one language, and when armies and navies will be no longer required.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Believe, Navy, World

  Ulysses Simpson Grant, John Y. Simon, Aaron M. Lisec (2000). “The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant: 1873”, p.62, SIU Press

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