Us Army Quotes

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country

I've trained myself to fight an army, so one guy will not defeat me.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains.

I always thought the Yankees had something to do with it.

We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought.

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

After the war, they took Army dogs and rehabilitated them for civilian life. But they turned soldiers into civilians immediately, and let em sink or swim.

My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.

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.

Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world.

I consider not what Parmenio should receive, but what Alexander should give.

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

I fear John Knox's prayers more than an army of ten thousand men.

All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement.

Transforming the European Union into a single State with one army, one constitution and one foreign policy is the critical challenge of the age

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

Men do not fear a powerful hostile army as the powers of hell fear the name and protection of Mary.

Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you up again because of your magnanimity and your virtues in other respects?

Take care of each man as though he were your own brother. He is.

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

Armies are created to protect an established system, not people. In the future, an educated humanity will not stand for war.

The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month.

We have an army far better adapted to attack than to defend. Let us fight at advantage before we are forced to fight at disadvantage.

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.

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.

We are all members of the same great family ... On social occasions the formality of strictly military occasions should be relaxed, and a spirit of friendliness and goodwill should prevail.

Military police is very timely for our army.

The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him.

When torrential water tosses boulders, it is because of its momentum. When the strike of a hawk breaks the body of its prey, it is because of timing.

Nothing is so good for the morale of the troops as occasionally to see a dead general.

National honor is national property of the highest value.

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

The greatness of our Army has always been the ability of our soldiers who serve in the ranks to rise to the challenge against the odds, in the face of danger, and win.

We shall kill. If you have not killed at least one German a day, you have wasted that day... Do not count days; do not count miles. Count only the number of Germans you have killed.

There will be no withdrawal without written orders and these orders shall never be issued.

How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.

One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.

I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.

Free supplies and open retreat are two essentials to the safety of an army or a fleet.

Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once.

But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time.

There are five possible operations for any army. If you can fight, fight; if you cannot fight, defend; if you cannot defend, flee; if you cannot flee, surrender; if you cannot surrender, die.

I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945.

Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.

I'm going to fight my way out, I'm going to take all my equipment and all my wounded and as many dead as I can. If we can't get out this way, this Division will never fight as a unit again.