Army Quotes - Page 8

• The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Navy, Nations, Navigate

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.22, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.

  Winston Churchill

  British Navy, Royal, Tradition

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• My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Family, Time

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• They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.

  Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.

  Bad Ass, Poor, Us Military

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• God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  Hope, Courage, Giving Up

  "The Armed Forces Prayer Book". Book edited by Daniel Alfred Poling, 1951.

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• The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived.

  Mort Walker

  War, Two Sides, People

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• **** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!

  David Farragut

  War, Military, Marine

  At the battle of Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 ('torpedoes' were mines). Capt. A. T. Mahan 'Admiral Farragut' (1892) ch. 10

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• There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Gentleman, Navy, Seamen

  "History of England". Book by Thomas B. Macaulay, Volume I, Chapter III, Part XXXII, 1848.

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• Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys with M16s going, "Who'd you call a faggot?"

  Jon Stewart

  Inspirational, Gay, Thinking

  "You Homophobes Just Jealous Gay Weddings will be Better" by Francesca Biller, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2009.

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• For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Air, Expression

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• Even though the National Guard and Army Reserve see combat today, it rankles me that people assume it was some kind of waltz in the park back then.

  Larry David

  People, Today, Parks

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

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• Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away.

  Hayden Fry

  Nice, Nfl, Giving

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• And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take.

  Dolley Madison

  Sister In Law, Filling Up, House

  Dolley Madison (1886). “Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States”, Boston ; New York, Houghton, Mifflin

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• One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.

  Jose Marti

  Powerful, Principles, Depth

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile.

  Benito Mussolini

  Crowds, Mass

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• Mines are equal opportunity weapons.

  Saddam Hussein

  Military, Opportunity, Weapons

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• I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Military, Good Luck, Thinking

  "Roosevelt and Howe" y Alfred B. Rollins, Jr., (p. 153), 1962.

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• I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness.

  Mark Twain

  Fighting, Men, Born

  Mark Twain (2015). “Annotated Huckleberry Finn with English Grammar Exercises: by Mark Twain (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.160, Powell Publications, LLC

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• I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.

  James A. Michener

  Writing, Nurse, Lovely

  "Tales of the South Pacific". Book by James A. Michener, 1947.

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• All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Military, Blue, Ohio

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.16, Fordham Univ Press

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• There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

  John Ashbery

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

  1989 In the International Herald Tribune, 2 Oct.

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• Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe.

  Noah Webster

  Country, Gun, Europe

  Noah Webster (1787). “An Examination Into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution Proposed by the Late Convention Held at Philadelphia: With Answers to the Principal Objections that Have Been Raised Against the System”, p.43

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• We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.

  Paul McCartney

  Wedding, Bells, Splits

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• The Army has carried the American... ideal to its logical conclusion... Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on the grounds of ability.

  Tom Lehrer

  Funny, Military, Race

  "Introduction to 'It Makes a Fellow Proud to be a Soldier'". CD Audio "An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer", March 20-21, 1959.

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