Army Quotes - Page 21

• When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category.

  Michael Arad

  People, Volunteer, Attrition

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• My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.

  Dierks Bentley

  Country, Dad, Military

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• One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offence to keep arms, and by substituting a regular army in the stead of a resort to the militia. The friends of a free government cannot be too watchful, to overcome the dangerous tendency of the public mind to sacrifice, for the sake of mere private convenience, this powerful check upon the designs of ambitious men.

  Joseph Story

  Powerful, Sacrifice, Men

  Joseph Story (1842). “A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States”, p.264

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• We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.

  Tom Lehrer

  Song, Peace, Hate

  Song: The Folk Song Army, Album: That Was the Year That Was

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• Get jailed, jump bail, join the Army if you fail.

  Bob Dylan

  Order, Law, Bail

  Song: Subterranean Homesick Blues, Album: Bringing It All Back Home, 1965

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• There are routes not to be followed, armies not to be attacked, citadels not to be besieged, territory not to be fought over.

  Sun Tzu

  Inspirational, Alliances, Territory

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.131, Shambhala Publications

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• I'd breed a little liberal army in the wood, just like these redneck lunatics I see at the local bar with their tribe of mutant inbred piglets.

  Lou Reed

  Redneck, Piglet, Woods

  Song: Beginning of a Great Adventure, Album: New York

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• My daddy served in the army where he lost his right eye, but he flew a flag out in our yard until the day that he died. He wanted my mother, my brother, my sister and me, to grow up and live happy in the land of the free.

  Toby Keith

  Mother, Brother, Growing Up

  Song: Courtesy Of The Red, White, And Blue, Album: Greatest Hits 2, 2002

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• I can preach until your deaf and dumb, I'm in that soul saving army beating on that big bass drum.

  Elvis Presley

  Religious, Dumb, Soul

  Song: Saved

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• My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army, but I never called them 'sir' or 'ma'am' or anything like that, and we never really moved around a lot because both my parents were stationed in D.C.

  Ian Harding

  Mom, Dad, Parent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a Navy brat. You find that a lot of stage actors are Army or Navy brats, because they have the ability to make a big impression, make friends, and then leave just a few months later.

  John Michael Higgins

  Navy, Stage Actors, Months

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. June 23, 2011.

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• Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster.

  Chuck Hagel

  Disaster, Ends, Dangerous

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• It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command.

  Mike Jackson

  Philosophy, Goes On, Responsible

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• I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic.

  Etgar Keret

  Writing, Training, Fiction

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• In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory.

  Etgar Keret

  Writing, Space, Territory

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• Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of the army, I was in fights. There was something about writing that was a way of experimenting with this emotion.

  Etgar Keret

  Strong, Writing, Fighting

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• What you experience in the army, aged 18 to 21, is what you take through all your life. You cross invisible lines: you shoot someone, get shot, break into people's houses. It's naive to think you won't carry anything into your life.

  Etgar Keret

  Thinking, People, House

  "Life at a louder volume". Interview With Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2007.

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• The Army's always had a special place in my heart.

  John M. McHugh

  Heart, Special, My Heart

  "Obama nominates GOP congressman as Army secretary", www.cnn.com. June 2, 2009.

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• The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.

  Kelly Miller

  Communication, Should, Western

  Kelly Miller (1919). “Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights: An Intensely Human and Brilliant Account of the World War; why American Entered the Conflict; what the Allies Fought For; and a Thrilling Account of the Important Part Taken by the Negro in the Tragic Defeat of Germany ...”

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• I was going to get drafted, but I didn't really want to go into the Army.

  Rick James

  Want

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 28, 2001.

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• Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

  Bernard M. Oliver

  Wise, Race, Self

  Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”

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• In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left.

  Marisha Pessl

  College, Political, Black

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• Most of the services staff is for the larger corporations, not so much for small and medium businesses because they cannot afford an extensive services army.

  Kevin B. Rollins

  Corporations, Economy, Staff

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• So the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are just recruits, or people who are just forced to join the army.

  Gerald Scarfe

  Running, War, People

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• In this world we see more passion than dispassion. We see more fear than knowledge. Armies rule the world. Fear-net is happening. Consequently, everyone is raised with fear embedded in their consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Passion, Buddhism, Humanity

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