Army Quotes - Page 34

• So many forces and resources would become available if States, aware (or conscious) of their true (or real) mission, would want to get on (or agree) to abolish every politics aiming at ("visant à", Fr.) expansion or hegemony; system that maintain among nations a a perpetual distrust and tension, impose on them (or force or compel, "leur impose", Fr.) formidable armies and crushing war budgets.

  African Spir

  Crush, Real, War

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 54), 1937.

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• By a network I don't necessarily mean your customers or clients. I mean a network of people who know you, like you, and trust you. They might never buy a thing from you, but they've always got you in the backs of their minds. They're people who are personally invested in seeing you succeed... They're your army of personal walking ambassadors.

  Bob Burg

  Mean, People, Mind

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• I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor.

  Ray Liotta

  Kids, Games, Actors

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• An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home.
  [Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  War, Home, Use

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• Trade it may help, society extend,
  But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend:
  It raises armies in a nation's aid,
  But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.

  Alexander Pope

  Money, Land, Pirate

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• Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It's like a highly specialized army unit, or a winning sports team. A unique combination of elements that becomes stronger together than apart.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Sports, Team, Winning

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• The greatest progress we have made, and the greatest progress we have yet to make, is in the human heart. In the end, all the world's wealth and a thousand armies are no match for the strength and decency of the human spirit.

  William J. Clinton

  Heart, Progress, World

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• In no way have we contemplated the intervention of the army in tasks that belong to police at the different levels of government. What is contemplated .. is support from the army in these tasks but not in direct actions that correspond to municipal, state and federal police.

  Ruben Aguilar

  Direct Action, Government, Support

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• The executions of agents, partisans, saboteurs, suspicious people, indulging in espionage and sabotage, and those who were of a detrimental effect to the German Army, were, in my opinion, completely in accordance with the Hague Convention.

  Paul Blobel

  People, Agents, Saboteurs

  "The Eichmann Kommandos". Book by Michael Angelo Musmanno, p. 153, 1961.

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• The German army is a machine, and machines can be broken!

  Konstantin Rokossovsky

  Broken, Machines

  "Current Biography" by H.W. Wilson Company, (p. 562), 1945.

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• Tukhachevsky was an especially damaging loss for the army and the state.

  Mikhail Tukhachevsky

  Loss, States

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• By seizing the formerly little-known Height 102.0 - the Mamayev Hill - the Red Army fought its way to the fascists' den - Berlin. We are proud to say that our victory in Stalingrad radically changed the whole situation in the Second World War. And this victory meant that our Motherland had withstood one of the most difficult tests in its history.

  Aleksandr Vasilevsky

  War, Victory, World

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• It was my view that the catastrophe. . . . could have been avoided if Vasilevsky had taken the position he should have. He could have taken a different position. . . . but he didn't do that, and as a result, in my view, he had a hand in the destruction of thousands of Red Army fighters in the Kharkov campaign.

  Aleksandr Vasilevsky

  Taken, Views, Hands

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• There was a time in my life when election year was nothing to me, but in 1912, I joined that great army of Americans who drop a stitch in their routine every four years, and give themselves up to backing first a candidate for the nomination and afterwards a nominee.

  Margaret Case Harriman

  Years, Giving, Routine

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• I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Country, Brother, Father

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

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• Winter is coming, we know what's coming with it. We can learn to live with the wildlings, or we can add them to the army of the dead.

  Jon Snow

  Winter, Add, Knows

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• I spent four years in the United States Army between 1985 and 1989, and I certainly learned how to survive out in the woods.

  Chad Coleman

  Years, United States, Four

  "Q&A – Chad L. Coleman (Tyreese)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com.

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• Organizational Development: The New Christian Right of the 1980s was dominated by paper organizations that were essentially the mailing lists of a handful of politicized ministers. Such organizations were better at issuing press releases than doing the hard work of political mobilization and advocacy. By contrast, the movement of the 1990s has generated a plethora of grass-roots organizations that allocate meaningful responsibilities to individual members. The goal is to create an army of grassroots activists who know how to stimulate political change.

  Kenneth D. Wald

  Christian, Meaningful, Hard Work

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• We waited for Congress to act. They couldn't act on the issue. So I just went ahead and signed an executive order which will unleash - [applause] - which says the federal agencies will not discriminate against faith-based programs. They ought to welcome the armies of compassion as opposed to turning them away.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Compassion, Agency

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• We should fund the armies of compassion, we should not discriminate against faith-based programs.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Compassion, Political

  "Bush pushes 'charitable choice' at Ohio church". www.cnn.com. May 24, 2001.

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• Sixty thousand blacks are annually embarked from the coast of Guinea, never to return to their native country; but they are embarked in chains: and this constant emigration, which, in the space of two centuries, might have furnished armies to overrun the globe, accuses the guilt of Europe and the weakness of Africa.

  Edward Gibbon

  Country, Space, Europe

  Edward Gibbon (1870). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.119

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• But in almost every province of the Roman world, an army of fanatics, without authority and without discipline, invaded the peaceful inhabitants; and the ruin of the fairest structures of antiquity still displays the ravages of those barbarians who alone had time and inclination to execute such laborious destruction.

  Edward Gibbon

  Discipline, History, Peaceful

  Edward Gibbon (2000). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.93, Modern Library

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• The union of the Roman empire was dissolved; its genius was humbled in the dust; and armies of unknown barbarians, issuing from the frozen regions of the North, had established their victorious reign over the fairest provinces of Europe and Africa.

  Edward Gibbon

  Dust, Europe, History

  Edward Gibbon (1837). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.526

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• There is no doubt that the absence of a second front in Europe considerably relieves the position of the German Army, nor can there be any doubt that the appearance of a second front on the Continent of Europe - and undoubtedly this will appear in the near future - will essentially relieve the position of our armies to the detriment of the German Army.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Europe, Doubt

  Radio address from Moscow (November 6, 1941). Vital Speeches of the Day, p. 102, December 1, 1941.

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• Some people reckoned up all King Harald's (King of Norway) great achievements, and said that nothing would be too difficult for him. But there were others who said that England would be very hard to conquer. It was very populous and the warriors who were known as the king's Housecarls were so valiant, that any one of them was worth two of the best in King Harald's army

  Snorri Sturluson

  Kings, Warrior, Two

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