Us Army Quotes

You may hate the war, but never hate the ones that fight. For they do not choose when or where to fight. All they chose was to protect who they love and even the people they don't know.

The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.

My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier.

My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.

Well, does he still have his fingernails? Making inquiries while negotiating the release of a US Army pilot from North Korea, in Time.

All the armies of Europe combined could not by force make a track upon the Blue Ridge, or take a drink from the Ohio. If we are to be destroyed, we must do it ourselves.

In a militia, the character of the laborer, artificer, or tradesman, predominates over that of the soldier: in a standing army, that of the soldier predominates over every other character.

It is over, the Reich walls have collapsed, my generals have betrayed me and my army refuses to fight, this is the herr Doernitz! I only hope you can turn this around.

Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.

A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.

Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.

Sachin Tendulkar has often reminded me of a veteran army colonel who has many medals on his chest to show how he has conquered bowlers all over the world.

I left home at 14 and I have friends who joined the navy and the army performing troops at 9. I know people [like that]. It's a very straightforward character.

An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.

PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.

The Romans thought of themselves as the chosen people, yet they built the greatest army on Earth by recruiting warriors from any background.

Maybe this is what the future will look like: fresh, clean water will be so rare it will be guarded by armies. Water as the next oil - the next resource worth going to war over.

Every army has a beginning, no matter how humble.

I joined the Army in 1965 and served with the 11th Hussars, which I loved. The regiment was so relaxed - a salute was more like a friendly wave.

If I left I would feel a deserter - like the guy who walks away from the army once there is a war. I am highly committed to this club. I love what I do here and love the spirit of the team.

If there is a God, the King of kings, there is also a Kingdom. If there is a Kingdom, there must also be an army. Now the question is, are you in this army and are you willing to fight for your King?

It would be easier to fight the Russian army, and it would give me great satisfaction, but I have a responsibility to my people

I think it's time for the Army to understand that power should be enshrined in the people if we are to be a genuine democracy and not in any particular institution or organisation.

After all it was my father who founded the Burmese army and I do have a sense of warmth towards the Burmese army.

I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.

The corporation as it now exists, with armies of salaried workers in identical cubes, will gradually disappear.

Cesare persuaded King Louis to lend him an entire army to defeat me. I'm flattered.

We never said that the majority [of the terrorists] are not Syrians, but we said that the minority is what they call "free Syrian army." That's what we said.

If the American administration want to support Al-Qaeda - go ahead. That's what we have to tell them, go ahead and support Al-Qaeda, but don't talk about rebels and free Syrian army.

Armies are not only for offensives.

I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

You want a blood relative to lead your army? Get Marcie. She likes ordering people around. She'll be a natural.

Hank had left me his doomed army, and he’d left Marcie his inheritance. Unfair didn’t begin to cover it.

We need to demilitarize local police departments so that they do not look like occupying armies. We want police departments that look like the communities they are serving.

The Army needs leaders the way a foot needs a big toe.

The Army War College has been a tradition in central Pennsylvania for years.

When I competed, it was for honor and country. It was a privilege to be a part of the U.S. team.

Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for seventy-five cents.

Soldiers who had been in the army long enough to know what a bloody swindle war really is would begin to feel that army life was really kind of fun, as long as [General Philip] Sheridan was up front.

You want to know who's now running the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy and the Marines and calling the shots where it counts? Fundamentalist Muslims and homosexual activists.

Instead of playing with army men or whatever, I played golf, like for hours every day.

Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

It's unclear how air strikes on our part can succeed unless the Iraqi army is willing to fight, and that's uncertain given the fact that several Iraqi army divisions have melted away.

The army did what Milosevic's regime asked of it, which was to create a 'Greater Serbia'.

I spent four years in the United States Army between 1985 and 1989, and I certainly learned how to survive out in the woods.

Many armies fail because they put all their emphasis into creating a plan that becomes useless ten minutes into the battle

The U.S. Army has recently removed the cross from the insignia worn by chaplains. In its place is a sun with its rays, symbolizing the divine in all things.

I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engraved Swiss Army knife is never refused!

Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster.

(A)ny time you buy weapons, or build an army, you begin to look for an excuse to use them. Plus, you pose more of a threat to others.