Army Quotes - Page 40

• [About Jews] Among other nations, the vital problems are: a good crop, extension of the boundaries, strong armies, colonies; among us, if we wish to be true to ourselves, the vital questions are: conscience, freedom, culture, ethics.

  I. L. Peretz

  Strong, Wish, Culture

  "Verk". Edited by Kletzkin, XI. 277f,

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• Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.

  Sallust

  Friendship, Loyalty, Kindness

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• There are two tendencies in all our war talk.... The first is to boast, if not of ourselves and our deeds, at least of our army, our corps, our regiments. The other is to find fault with, to criticize, to censure, to condemn others. If there is a victory, we gained it and must have the credit of it. If there is a failure, it was the fault of the other fellow,--he must be blamed for it.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  War, Two, Victory

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• I regard the inflation acts as wrong in all ways. Personally I am one of the noble army of debtors, and can stand it if others can. But it is a wretched business.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Debtors, Noble, Way

  "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes". Book by Rutherford B. Hayes, 1922 - 1926.

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• Today, any action anywhere on earth has an immediate repercussion on all five continents. News of a victory of the Eastern armies in Morocco or Shanghai travels instantly, thanks to modern means of communication, to all Eastern peoples and fills them with enthusiasm and faith. This phenomenon is, of course, unprecedented in the history of man.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Communication, Mean, Men

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• These semi-traitors [Union generals who were not hostile to slavery] must be watched. Let us be careful who become army leaders in the reorganized army at the end of this Rebellion. The man who thinks that the perpetuity of slavery is essential to the existence of the Union, is unfit to be trusted. The deadliest enemy the Union has is slavery - in fact, its only enemy.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  War, Men, Thinking

  Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, June 05, 1862.

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• Business is not a spiritual matter, and my business decisions are not based on spiritual considerations. When I founded the Essence of Life, a project aimed at teaching tolerance and respectful dialogue, the person appointed to head it was Irit Atzmon, a former colonel in the army. Can anything be more down-to-earth than that?

  Shari Arison

  Spiritual, Teaching, Essence

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• Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined by the occupied population.

  Noam Chomsky

  Responsibility, Rights, Population

  "How can America get out of Iraq?" by Noam Chomsky, Jonathan Schell, Howard Zinn and William Polk, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2004.

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• I hope that the responsible figures in the Ukrainian leadership will not hinder soldiers in the Ukrainian army from putting down their weapons.

  Vladimir Putin

  Leadership, Soldier, Weapons

  "Ukraine pro-Russia forces seize strategic Debaltseve railway hub despite truce" by Alec Luhn and Oksana Grytsenko, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2015.

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• I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them,
  And the white skeletons of young men-I saw them;
  I saw the debris and debris of all the dead soldiers of the war;
  But I saw they were not as was thought;
  They themselves were fully at rest-they suffer'd not;
  The living remain'd and suffer'd-the mother suffer'd,
  And the wife and the child, and the musing comrade suffer'd,
  And the armies that remain'd suffer'd.

  Walt Whitman

  Mother, Veterans Day, Children

  Walt Whitman (1870). “Passage to India”, p.39, Haskell House Pub Limited

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• True, we have no conscription; that is, men are not usually forced to enlist in the army, but we have developed a far more exacting and rigid force-necessity.

  Emma Goldman

  Men, Force, Conscription

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.381, University of Illinois Press

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• The first task of the Federal Reserve system would be to finance the World War. The European nations were already bankrupt, because they had maintained large standing armies for almost fifty years, a situation created by their own central banks, and therefore they could not finance a war. A central bank always imposes a tremendous burden on the nation for "rearmament" and "defense", in order to create inextinguishable debt, simultaneously creating a military dictatorship and enslaving the people to pay the "interest" on the debt which the bankers have artificially created.

  Eustace Mullins

  Military, War, Order

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• Give Me a Turkish Army. I will Conquer world.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Giving, World, Conquer

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• Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats.

  Joseph Stalin

  Air, Needs, Red

  "Red Phoenix: The Rise of Soviet Air Power, 1941 - 1945" by Von Hardesty, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, (p. 170), 1982.

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• But in its de facto alliance with Caesar, Christianity connives directly in the murder of Creation. For in these days, Caesar is no longer a mere destroyer of armies, cities, and nations. He is a contradicter of the fundamental miracle of life.

  Wendell Berry

  Cities, Miracle, Environmental

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.319, Counterpoint

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• I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one

  Karen Morley

  Men, Care, Red

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• The Western concept of democracy is based on the idea that the loser of an election has the possibility next time round of being the winner. But in the case of an ethnically or religiously divided country, in which minorities don't live peacefully together, this necessary balance can't be properly guaranteed by democracy. When each ethnic group arms itself, it is not surprising that the army of a new state is viewed by part of the population as an ideological militia.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Ideas, Together

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Putin likes to quote a sentence from Czar Alexander III, who said that Russian has only two allies - the army and the navy. As a citizen, this makes me sit up and take notice. This is a concept of self-imposed isolation, a defense strategy that sees Russia surrounded by enemies.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Two, Russia, Self

  "Russia Is Slipping Back into an Authoritarian Empire". Interview with Martin Doerry and Matthias Schepp, www.spiegel.de. February 2, 2007.

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• With respect to where we are now, we have a voluntary army. And if we ever go back to conscription I hope that at time it will be the kind of conscription that was put in at the end of the Vietnam War. And that is, everybody is equally liable to be called to serve the nation in time of conflict.

  Colin Powell

  War, Vietnam, Kind

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I didn't like Army life. I didn't like taking orders. I didn't like discipline. I didn't like being yelled at. You'd get 10 years for punching a sergeant so I couldn't punch a sergeant.

  Jack Kirby

  Order, Years, Discipline

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy.

  Gore Vidal

  Thinking, Democracy, President

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Admiralty said it was a plane and not a boat, the Royal Air Force said it was a boat and not a plane, the Army were plain not interested.

  Christopher Cockerell

  Air, Royal, Aviation

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• I was educated in a private school in England amongst people who had been trained for sort of banking or the Army or business. As I came towards the end of my education, I thought I must find something or I'll never meet any of these people again.

  Jeremy Irons

  School, People, Banking

  "Actor Jeremy Irons". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. September 7, 2012.

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• A leader can transform an army of frightened people into fearless people.

  Myles Munroe

  People, Leader, Fearless

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• The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Division, Four, Empires

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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