Troops Quotes - Page 3

• Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.

  Jared Diamond

  Rhinos, Empires, Shock

  Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.352, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands.

  Jared Diamond

  Military, Native American, Army

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• Besides if people really want to support the troops they would vote democrat.

  David Cross

  Funny, Humor, People

  "David Cross From Arrested Development". Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. February 1, 2004.

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• You have to decide in advance whether you're ready go to war. If you guys are ready to send a million troops into Ukraine and fight World War III, you're going to do it without my support because I think that's a really foolish notion.

  Rand Paul

  War, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I honestly think that it automatically hurts me if I said that I supported the war in Iraq and I support the troops. That automatically kills me for getting a bunch of movies, a bunch of television shows. People don't want to hear from me.

  Drew Carey

  Hurt, War, Thinking

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

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• I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

  George W. Bush

  Writing, Iraq, People

  George Walker Bush, John W. Dietrich (2005). “The George W. Bush Foreign Policy Reader: Presidential Speeches and Commentary”, p.106, M.E. Sharpe

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• We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people.

  Sherrod Brown

  Building Up, Iraq, People

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• Al-Qa'ida does not follow a traditional command structure, wear uniforms, carry its arms openly, or mass its troops at the borders of the nations it attacks. Nonetheless, it possesses the demonstrated capability to strike with little notice and cause significant civilian or military casualties.

  John O. Brennan

  Military, Borders, Arms

  "Strengthening our Security by Adhering to our Values and Laws". John O. Brennan's Speech at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 16, 2011.

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• I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Military, Color, Enemy

  Douglas MacArthur's address to Colonel George M. Jones and the 503rd Regimental Combat Team who recaptured Corregidor (March 2, 1945) as quoted in "Bureau of Navigation News Bulletin", 1945.

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• When orders are consistently trustworthy and observed, the relationship of a commander with his troops is satisfactory.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Order

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• I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels.

  Jane Fonda

  Angel, Sides, Belief

  "The Truth About My Trip To Hanoi". www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home.

  Ron Fournier

  War, Home, Kids

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• There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.

  George McGovern

  Strong, War, United States

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• The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops.

  Mitch McConnell

  Iraq, Needs, Troops In Iraq

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• Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.

  John Major

  Fields, Conflict, British

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• To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.

  A. J. Liebling

  Children, War, Hero

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• I've been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldn't pay for the dental work he needed.

  Matthew Lesko

  Military, War, Dental Work

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• I said in October of 2008 that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or had the intention or capability of attacking the United States. Here we are. Almost 4,700 troops died, tens of thousands injured, over a million Iraqis dead. It will cost $5 trillion in the end for the war.

  Dennis Kucinich

  War, Mass Destruction, Iraq

  "Interview with Representative Dennis Kucinich". Interview With John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 30, 2011.

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• In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home.

  Jesse Jackson

  Home, Years, Democracy

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• Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings.

  Zhuge Liang

  Leadership, Art, War

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• All our officers and fighters must always bear in mind that we are the great People's Liberation Army, we are the troops led by the great Communist Party of China. Provided we constantly observe the directives of the Party, we are sure to win.

  Mao Zedong

  Party, Army, Winning

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.57, Lulu.com

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• If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road.

  George W. Bush

  Peace, War, World

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• Take it off first, soldier." He looked at her suspiciously. "Take what off?" "Your clothes. Entertain the troops." "My clothes?" He frowned. "I was sort of thinking you might want to do that for me." She shook her head and leaned back on one elbow, giving him her witchiest, bitchiest smile. "Strip." "Now, listen here, Francie--" Lifting a languid hand, she once again pointed toward the center of the room. "Do it real slow, good-looking," she purred. "I want to enjoy every minute.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Real, Thinking, Clothes

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips (2005). “Fancy Pants”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

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• If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it's wrong. It's just wrong.

  Al Franken

  Believe, Soldier, Comedy

  "American Forces Radio: Objective view of the home front?" by Tom Foreman, www.cnn.com. June 2, 2004.

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• As someone who's spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda, I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.

  Al Franken

  Warrior, Men, Iraq

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