Us Army Quotes

It is not possible to foretell the reaction of certain elements in the Army and Navy.

Armies for the preservation of peace do not exist; they exist only for the triumphant exertion of war.

History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army.

Let's withdraw from Afghanistan and have the army invade America - that's the only way we'll get new schools and roads.

I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.

I just don't see why anybody would vote Republican in the Army. If you want to support the troops, if I was a troop, I would say, 'You know how to support me? Don't send me to stupid wars.'

Army, Marriage, the Church, and Baking: the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse. Fermin Romero de Torres - The Shadow of the Wind.

Holly's theory about the army," Sharon explained. And what is it?" Denise asked, intrigued. Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

The Army damages itself when it doesn't live up to its own values.

In my 35 years in the army I was in school for 6 years. I think corporations should take a look at whether they are investing enough in the development of their human capital.

You're gonna get the best - you're gonna get the best equipment [in the Army].

The only thing strong about the French Army is their damn body odor.

I've always had a keen interest in the world. My father was in Patton's 3rd Army, and he helped liberate Dachau in the 7th Army.

Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.

It's the Afghan national army that went into Najaf and did the work there.

The Army, as usual, are without pay; and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and though the patience of them is equally threadbare, the States seem perfectly indifferent to their cries.

Now that you're Secretary of War, what kind of an army do you think we ought to have?

He'll sit there are he'll say "Do this! Do that!" and nothing will happen. Poor Ike - it won't be a bit like the army.

I didn't want to work at Pizza Hut and I didn't want to join the Army. So I just decided to go out and be awesome.

My heart was beating like an army on the march.

I idolized my mother. I didn't realize she was a lousy cook until I went into the army.

I think we're all in Cime's army now. But never mind, the Storm God hasn't forgotten us. Heaven is no farther away than it ever was.

The American way of war is to build an army, then another, then a third, while building fleets. If the war is still on at that point we smash.

When Nixon declared the war on cancer, he had no army. He had no tools. He had no anything, except good intentions.

[Peter Norman]was born and raised under the auspices of his mom and dad being involved in the Salvation Army. He believed in humanity. At all costs, he believed in humanity.

Elvis died the day he went into the army.

In 2004, I went to Israel and gave a speech that resulted in guns and ammunition being given to the South Sudanese rebels, specifically Commanders Athol's and Yaka's armies.

In 1998, I was trained by the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army ] in London how to pretend to be a geologist.

In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.

Well, my father was in the Army and we traveled quite a bit when I was growing up, and I thought that I would like to have a military career, although I was drawn more towards the Navy.

In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left.

I was born in Georgia. That's where my grandparents-and all my people-are from. But my family traveled a great deal because my dad was in the army as a helicopter pilot.

To punish is the most difficult thing there is. A society such as ours needs to question every aspect of punishment as it is practiced everywhere: in the army, the schools, the factories.

Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

At the head of an army, nothing is more becoming than simplicity.

Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England.

We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.

The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to practicing cavalry charges on western outposts.

My husband is a former Air Force pilot and my son is an active duty Army surgeon, recently returned from Iraq, so my pride in our military is passionate... and personal.

The armies of the day have chased the army of the night, Heaven and earth are filled with purity and light.

Deep in the winter plain, two armies Dig their machinery, to destroy each other. Men freeze and hunger. No one is given leave On either side, except the dead, and wounded.

Take short views, hope for the best and trust in God.

Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants - the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone and prevent warfare becoming a mere lower-class brawl.

I was never intimidated by change. I was like an army brat who had lived all around the world.

I supply guns to every army but the Salvation Army.

An army of the people is invincible!

There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had brought a smaller army I might have had the sense to run. But he overdid it.

An army is a miniature of the society which produces it.

I feel an army in my fist.