Army Quotes - Page 31

• The reason territorial monarchs failed time after time against maritime powers was not that absolutist, non-consensual governments were incapable of building great fleets in peace - quite the reverse - but that they were unable to fund them in the crises of war. Mainly this was because they were forced to divert resources from the fleet to their armies, to fight territorial rivals frequently financed by their maritime enemy from the profits of sea trade.

  Peter Padfield

  War, Fighting, Government

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• Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants - the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone and prevent warfare becoming a mere lower-class brawl.

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, Class, Giving

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “The Carpet People”, p.148, Random House

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• Crown Prince Rupprecht, the heir to the throne of Bavaria who commanded the army group facing the British at the Somme, was the senior direct lineal heir of James Stuart, the Old Pretender of 1715. Had there been any Jacobites left in Britain in 1916, they would have had to regard this south German prince as their rightful king.

  David Frum

  Senior, Kings, History

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• What have the masses been clamoring for? Jobs and welfare, and they got 'em. They've also got unions and managements like two armies converting the whole economy into a battleground with the customers as victims, except that the victims are also in the army. They think in battle terms by day and like customers at night.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Jobs, Night

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• It is perfectly clear that people, given no alternative, will choose tyranny over anarchy, because anarchy is the worst tyranny of all... The special nature of liberties is that they can be defended only as long as we still have them. So the very first signs of their erosion must be resisted, whether the issue be domestic surveillance by the Army, so-called preventive detention, or the freedom of corporate television, or that of a campus newspaper.

  Eric Sevareid

  Erosion, Issues, Long

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• We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army.

  Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach

  Proud, Economy, Magnificent

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• Christians would show sense if they dispatched these argumentative Scotists and pigheaded Ockhamists and undefeated Albertists along with the whole regiment of Sophists to fight the Turks and Saracens instead of sending those armies of dull-witted soldiers with whom they've long been carrying on war with no result.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Christian, War, Fighting

  Desiderius Erasmus, Erika Rummel (1990). “The Erasmus Reader”, p.160, University of Toronto Press

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• In contrast, Western historians, and those in South Korea, say the North attacked the South on June 25, 1950. Both sides agree that after the war began, the North Korean Army captured Seoul in three days and pushed as far south as Pusan before American troops arrived to drive back the North Koreans nearly as far north as the border to China.

  Sheryl WuDunn

  War, Korea, Usa

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• He wanted to know what assurance we could give the American people that we aren't getting the tar licked out of us by the North Korean army. It has never happened to us. It won't happen this time.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, People, Giving

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• Going from Army base to base as a kid taught me to be a man of all nations. I'd go to the Jewish people and say, 'Shalom, brother.' I go to the Muslim people and say, 'Salaam aleikum.'I go to the Chinese people and say, 'Nee hao mah,' which means, 'How you doin'?' I go to the Japanese people and say, 'Konnichiwa.' I go to San Antonio, Texas, and I get along with Mexicans. Then I go to Louisiana and hang with the Creoles. Moving around a lot made me a man of all people.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Brother, Moving

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• The all-volunteer army works. It works particularly when we pay our troops well.

  George W. Bush

  Volunteer, Troops, Pay

  George W. Bush at the second Presidential Debate in St. Louis, Missouri, www.cnn.com. October 9, 2004.

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• An all-volunteer army is best suited to fight the new wars of the 21st century.

  George W. Bush

  War, Fighting, Volunteer

  The debate between President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry at Washington University, www.cnn.com. October 9, 2004.

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• We don't need mass armies anymore. We replace it with more effective equipment.

  George W. Bush

  Needs, Equipment, Mass

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• When I was a kid you always heard about the Israeli army and you always heard about this tiny little country and how everyone around them wants them gone, and every time somebody comes after them they take care of business. And so as a Jewish kid you were proud of that.

  Adam Sandler

  Country, Kids, Gone

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• Since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.

  Michael Caine

  Fun, Taught, Theater

  "Michael Caine: A Life Large Enough For An Encore". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 30, 2010.

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• Put the walls up. Get the better walls. There's no reason the army website should be hacked.

  Eric Bolling

  Wall, Reason, Should

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I was in Korea. I've noticed all my life I see elderly people who have been close to death in an illness and they're absolutely cured and they say, now I know how to live my life. I've seen death. That happened to me when I was 19. It was a terrible, terrifying thing. And I live my life like those people decided to do when they were old. So, since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.

  Michael Caine

  Fun, Elderly, Korea

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The history of warfare has not yet enabled any army, any civilized army, the army of a democracy like Israel, to be able to deal with a ruthless terrorist enemy that uses civilians as a human shield without having some incidental civilian casualties.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Enemy, Democracy

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• There must not be lacking in our leadership something of that spirit of the Austrian corporal who, when all had fallen into ruins around him, and when Germany seemed to have fallen into chaos, did not hesitate to march forth against the vast army of victorious nations and has already turned the tables decisively against them.

  Winston Churchill

  Germany, Tables, Ruins

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• Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.

  James Madison

  Debt, Libertarian, Public Enemies

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.106, University of Virginia Press

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• The church should be a disciplined charging army. Christians, like slaves and solders ask no questions. We are fighting a holy war.

  Jerry Falwell

  Christian, War, Fighting

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• the leader of armies is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or in peril.

  Sun Tzu

  Fate, Men, People

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.11, Lulu.com

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• The Red Army...   swept the native population clean in a manner that has no parallel since the days of the Asiatic hordes.

  George F. Kennan

  Population, Red, Clean

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• A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house

  Socrates

  House, Building, Materials

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• For educated Americans like Joseph Ellis, Vietnam is a special hang-up. I am an Englishman of exactly the Vietnam generation, a couple of years younger than Ellis; indeed, for reasons too complicated to explain here, I was nearly drafted into the US army in 1965. I know many Americans of my own age and, as much to the point, my own class - journalists, publishers, lawyers. And I don't think I know one who served in Vietnam.

  Geoffrey Wheatcroft

  Couple, Thinking, Years

  "Not so macho" by Geoffrey Wheatcroft, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2001.

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