Army Quotes - Page 22

• Globally, as the nation-state becomes increasingly less meaningful - a provider of positive goods and more and more just an army and some domestic enforcement - people are withdrawing to shape and support more localised forms of organisation and power. To the extent that it's part of that civilised and localising world, the same is true of the U.S.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Meaningful, People, Support

  "The growth of local power is a bright spot in seven bleak years of Bush" by Rebecca Solnit, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2007.

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• When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too.

  William Sanderson

  Book, Law, Noble

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 11, 2009.

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• My parents were both in the army for 20 years and then worked in government departments; but they had gone through the Great Depression and known lean times. They always remained extremely frugal and lived far below their means.

  Veronica Webb

  Mean, Government, Years

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• For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival.

  Mo Yan

  Country, Boys, Worry

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• Do not ever threaten an Afghan with violence. We will rise as one and we will face every threat the way we have taken on thousands of previous armies and conquerors.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Taken, Faces, Violence

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.

  Honore de Balzac

  Memories, Character, Writing

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• We are fighting the greatest battle of all time with the most untrained army on earth. If strict discipline is necessary in art and athletics, how can we expect to be advanced Christians and stay in kindergarten?

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Art, Fighting

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• I often compare myself as a kid to my own grandchildren, who are around 11 and 14 now. That's the age kids usually read my book. And I remember myself, we'd gone through a world war. My father was an army officer so I was aware of what was going on. But I wasn't bombarded with images of catastrophe like many kids are today.

  Lois Lowry

  Father, War, Book

  "Lois Lowry, ‘Son’ And ‘The Giver’ Author, Reflects On Dystopian Novels, Psychopaths And Why Kids Make The Best Audiences". Interview with Lucas Kavner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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• Have I ever written anything that has really changed something? What I believe is that you can't change anything without using art. I believe that the drops wear away the stone. I try to be part of that army.

  Henning Mankell

  Art, Believe, Trying

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• People are constantly applying double standards. Take the United States, for example. Washington wants the whole world to admire the country for its democracy. Then the government sends out its army, in the name of this democracy, and leaves behind the kind of chaos we see in Iraq.

  Jacob Zuma

  Country, Names, Iraq

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• Military police is very timely for our army.

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  Military, Police, Timely

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• Walking up to the Whisky some guys said to me 'the Scene is dead. Stop wearing makeup faggot!' All I could do was smile and think about the BVB Army and the legions of dedicated fans BVB has. I will wear my warpaint proudly, thank you very much! Seriously love you all.

  Jinxx

  Love You, Makeup, Thinking

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• It's the Afghan national army that went into Najaf and did the work there.

  George W. Bush

  Afghan

  A joint press conference of President George W. Bush and Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi at the White House, www.washingtonpost.com. September 23, 2004.

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• We must raise and train an army of fighters for freedom.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Fighter, Raises, Train

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• A standing army, however necessary it may be at some times, is always dangerous to the liberties of the people. Such power should be watched with a jealous eye.

  Samuel Adams

  Jealous, Eye, People

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• It is always dangerous to the liberties of the people to have an army stationed among them, over which they have no control ... The Militia is composed of free Citizens. There is therefore no danger of their making use of their Power to the destruction of their own Rights, or suffering others to invade them.

  Samuel Adams

  Rights, People, Suffering

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• There are no good wars or bad wars. The only thing bad about a war is
  to lose it. All wars have been fought for a so-called good Cause on both
  sides. But only the victor's Cause becomes history's Noble Cause. It's not a
  matter of who is right or who is wrong, it's a matter of who has the best
  generals and the better army!

  Charles Bukowski

  War, Matter, Causes

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.263, Canongate Books

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• We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Children, Land, Giving

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• It's like being the general of an army [directing a film]. You send people out to die.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  People, Film, Dies

  "12 Quotes By 5 Female Filmmakers at Chapman: 'It's Not a Level Playing Field, Get Over It'" by Tim Appelo, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 27, 2012.

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• And nothing formed against me shall stand. You hold the whole world in Your hands. I'm holding onto Your promises. You are faithful. You are faithful. You are faithful. I know Who goes before me. I know Who stands behind. The God of angel armies is always by my side. The One who reigns forever, He is a Friend of mine. The God of angel armies Is always by my side.

  Chris Tomlin

  Angel, Hands, Forever

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• As a revolutionary people, we Americans won a probable victory over the best and biggest army in the world because we learned to fight from the Indians. You can do a lot of damage with a Kentucky rifle from behind a tree. You don't put on a peaked hat and a red coat and white leggings and crossed white bandoleers with a big silver buckle in the center of the X and march uphill into a line of Howitzers loaded with chain and chopped horseshoes.

  James Lee

  Fighting, Kentucky, White

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• I returned to New Orleans and my problems with pari-mutuel windows and a dark-haired, milk-skinned wife from Martinique who went home with men from the Garden District while I was passed out in a houseboat on Lake Pontchartrain, the downdraft of U.S. Army helicopters flattening a plain of elephant grass in my dreams.

  James Lee

  Dream, Home, Dark

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• The Army damages itself when it doesn't live up to its own values.

  Claudia Kennedy

  Damage, Values

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• I like a decent funeral, and God knows in my family we've seen enough of them. Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.

  Matt Roper

  Dad, Funeral, My Family

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• The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden-that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.

  C. S. Lewis

  Couple, Husband, Book

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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