Army Quotes - Page 25

• I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains.

  Bill Mauldin

  Mean, Men, People

  "Up Front". Book by Bill Mauldin, 1945.

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• My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.

  Alfred Nobel

  Men, World, Golden

  "The Military Quotation Book". Book by James Charlton (p. 114), 2002.

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• Knowledge is lost without putting it into practice; a man is lost due to ignorance; an army is lost without a commander; and a woman is lost without a husband.

  Chanakya

  Husband, Ignorance, Men

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• There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had brought a smaller army I might have had the sense to run. But he overdid it.

  Mark Lawrence

  Running, Enemy, Might

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• Ours is the wild tumult of the unchained storm, the tumult of the army on the march, clashing its cymbals, rioting with excess of energy. Need we be ashamed of it?

  Liam O'Flaherty

  Storm, Energy, Needs

  Liam O'Flaherty (1996). “The Letters of Liam O'Flaherty”, Irish Amer Book Company

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• The only rule was that the stuff had to be funny and pretty short. To me, the quintessential Army Man joke was one of John Swartzwelder's: 'They can kill the Kennedys. Why can't they make a cup of coffee that tastes good?' It's a horrifying idea juxtaposed with something really banal-and yet there's a kind of logic to it. It's illuminating because it's kind of how Americans see things: Life's a big jumble, but somehow it leads to something I can consume. I love that.

  George Meyer

  Coffee, Men, Ideas

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• If goods don't cross borders, armies will.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Borders, Crosses, Goods

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• From the moment an organizer enters a community, he lives, dreams, eats, breathes, sleeps only one thing, and that is to build the mass power base of what he calls the army.

  Saul Alinsky

  Dream, Sleep, Interesting

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• It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.

  Alfred Jodl

  Character, Should Have, Discipline

  "The Trial of the Germans". Book by Eugene Davidson, p. 347 (August 10, 1938), 1997.

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• In previous armies, soldiers used their time to clean their weapons and stock up on ammunition. Our weapons are words, and we may need our arsenal at any moment.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Soldier, Needs, May

  "A Movement of Movements: Is Another World Really Possible?". Book edited by Tom Mertes and Walden F. Bello, 2004.

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• We are an army of dreamers, and that's why we're invincible.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Dreamer, Invincible

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• In Technologized Desire, the cultural pathologies that mark the panic ecstasy and terminal doom of the posthuman condition are powerfully rehearsed in the language of science fiction. Here, images of prosthetic subjects, zombies, cut-ups and armies of the medieval dead actually slip off the pages of literature to become the terminal hauntology of these technologized times. Technologized Desire is nothing less than a brilliant data screen of future memories. Read it well: it's a survival guide for bodies flatlined by the speed of accelerating technology.

  Arthur Kroker

  Memories, Cutting, Technology

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• Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.

  Oliver Stone

  Exercise, Animal, Years

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• Governments move armies, but only individuals can move hearts. And with every act of love that emanates from any of us, we are activating miracles, adding to a spiritual ocean that in time will purify our planet of all vestiges of fear. Love alone can triumph over hate, and if we give it the chance, it will.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Hate, Ocean

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• The wisdom of the chess player is displayed more in winning over a capable opponent than a novice. The wisdom of the general is displayed more in defeating a superior army than in subduing an inferior one. Even more so, the wisdom of God is displayed when He brings good to us and glory to Himself out of confusion and calamity rather than out of pleasant times.

  Jerry Bridges

  Winning, Player, Confusion

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.123, NavPress

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• Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Mistake, Victory, Brilliant

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• Treasures and armies do not make a king. A true king is a king within himself.

  Rumi

  Kings, Treasure

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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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• With regard to military discipline, I may safely say that no such thing existed in the Continental Army.

  Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

  Military, Discipline, History

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• An army of philosophers would not be sufficient to change the nature of error and to make it truth.

  Averroes

  Errors, Philosopher, Sufficient

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• Many sections are taken up with political discussions and how the way of the ruler, the merchant, the householder, and the army interact with the Tao.

  Frederick Lenz

  Taken, Political, Taoism

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• If you were lost for America, there is nobody who could keep the army and the revolution [going] for six months.

  Marquis de Lafayette

  America, Six Months, Revolution

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• Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming, you have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it's going to come in handy all the time.

  Bill Watterson

  Meaningful, Jobs, Book

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once.

  Roy Blunt

  Stupid, Ebay, Rifles

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• On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than 2000 men in the whole.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Men, Evening, December

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