United States Army Quotes

• I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Hate

  Speech in Ottawa on January 10, 1946. "Eisenhower Speaks: Dwight D. Eisenhower in His Messages and Speeches". Book edited by Rudolph L. Treuenfels, 1948.

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  I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.

  George S. Patton

  Motivational, Military, War

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• Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  "War As I Knew It". Book by George S. Patton. Chapter "Reflections and Suggestions", 1947.

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• Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

  George Washington

  Military, War, 4th Of July

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.24, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Always do everything you ask of those you command.

  George S. Patton

  Army, Military Leadership, Military Command

  "I Remember General Patton's Principles". Book by Porter B. Williamson, p. 174, 1984.

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• The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Life, Truth

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• Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Veterans Day, Military

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• Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States.

  Noah Webster

  Army, Gun, Power

  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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• It took the United States Army to get one Negro into the University of Mississippi; it took troops to get a few Negroes in the white schools at Little Rock and another dozen places in the South.

  Malcolm X

  School, Army, Rocks

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• We are looking at the potential of an armed raid or a forcible raid after February 22nd [2017], when the Army Corps said that they would declare us trespassers on our own land, the same as the United States Army said they would declare us hostile if we didn't return to the reservations in 1875.

  Chase Iron Eyes

  Army, Land, United States

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There are 400 to 500 people north of the Cannonball River in the contested zone, in the treaty zone, in the place where, according to the United States Army Corps of Engineers, we are not supposed to be. And they are going to stand their ground.

  Chase Iron Eyes

  Army, Rivers, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• 'The green beret' is again becoming a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight for freedom. I know the United States Army will live up to its reputation for imagination, resourcefulness, and spirit as we meet this challenge.

  John F. Kennedy

  Army, Fighting, Imagination

  "Letter to the United States Army". April 11, 1962.

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• A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.

  Allen West

  Education, Army, Men

  "Fiery Speech Thrusts Congressional Candidate Into National Spotlight". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. December 15, 2009.

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• I feel that the recent ruling of the United States Army and Navy regarding the refusal of colored blood donors is an indefensible one from any point of view. As you know, there is no scientific basis for the separation of the bloods of different races except on the basis of the individual blood types or groups.

  Charles R. Drew

  Army, Race, Views

  "One Blood: The Death and Resurrection of Charles R. Drew" by Spencie Love, (pp. 155-156), 1996.

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• After being thrown out of the house, four schools and the United States Army, I discovered that I was on the right track.

  Robert Downey, Sr.

  School, Army, Track

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• I never had the chance to decide; I was drafted to serve my nation. While I received a deferment to attend school, I ultimately served in the United States Army in the years following the Korean conflict.

  Don Young

  School, Army, Years

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• Statues and children frame the Eiffel Tower and its watery image. When the Germans occupied Paris, they housed a beacon light in the Tower to guide their night planes. The victorious United States Army requisitioned this landmark as a radar transmission point.

  Maynard Owen Williams

  Children, Army, Night

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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

  Army, Years, United States

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

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• I have grown up with guns all my life, but people who like assault weapons they should join the United States Army, we have them.

  Wesley Clark

  Army, Gun, Assault Weapons

  "CNN Crossfire", transcripts.cnn.com. June 25, 2003.

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• Hollywood is a very male business, and it has in vast portions of it - the whole action movie part of it might as well be the United States Army in 1943 in that the ethics of it are, you know, boot camp and action movies and guns and explosions and all the rest of it, and that - so that means that about 50% of the business is not only pretty much closed off to women, but women don't even wanna be in it!

  Nora Ephron

  Mean, Army, Gun

  "Dreams on Spec". Documentary, 2007.

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• With this announcement today, the Army has made it clear what we have known all along - that Fort Riley is truly the crown jewel of the United States Army.

  Jim Ryun

  Army, Jewels, America

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• Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.

  John Abizaid

  Home, Army, United States

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• In my proper character, an officer of the United States army.

  Zebulon Pike

  Character, Army, United States

  "The Boy's Story of Zebulon M. Pike".

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