Us Army Quotes

The Army's always had a special place in my heart.

The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We're used to it.

Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.

I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.

The mighty army of time is without equal.

To defend a country, you need an army, but to defend a civilization, you need education...

Men," he began his address to the officers, measuring his pauses carefully. "You're American officers. The officers of no other army in the world can make that statement. Think about it.

Nothing scares the army more than nonviolent opposition.

I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots.

I don't agree that you need an enormous number of American troops. Saddam's army is down to one-third than it was before, and I think it would be a cakewalk.

The Israeli army had the most sophisticated weaponry and they used it against residential towers, schools and hospitals.

In war, force is used by the belligerents themselves, no effort being made to bring evildoers before a judicial body, each army acting as judge, jury and executioner.

You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.

I do hang on to things. I was so happy my father saved his army jacket. I grew up wearing that all through high school.

This means more to me than any Grammy I could ever win ... It will take a village and an army, [some] countries and continents to make bullying a hate crime.

When great armies go to war, Sorrow is the sole winner.

Thorn bushes grow where armies have camped.

The unyielding army will not win.

When equal armies battle, the grieving one will be victorious.

It is war now, and armies need symbols.

This camp is a forge for the army; it's testing our mettle. Instead of heat and hammer, our trials are cold and hunger. Question is, what are we made of?

The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.

Yes," Vorkosigan agreed, "I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all their weapons pointed in the same direction.

Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being, are always the destroyers of it too; by frequently changing the hands in which they think proper to lodge it.

Commanders and senior officers should die with troops. The honour of the British Empire and the British Army is at stake.

I'd breed a little liberal army in the wood, just like these redneck lunatics I see at the local bar with their tribe of mutant inbred piglets.

Sixteen- and 17-year-olds pay taxes and can join the army, so surely they should in turn be given their right to vote.

The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi.

Love has more force than a besieging army.

One of the things I think the police have to do is to stop behaving like armies.

If it's necessary to form a Black Nationalist army, we'll form a Black Nationalist army. It'll be ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death.

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.

The Red Army is like a furnace in which all captured soldiers are melted down and transformed the moment they come over.

Without a People's army, the people have nothing.

We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.

It's not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of their own, living their entire lives in the presence of a foreign army that controls the movements of the parents every single day.

I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.

A priest can achieve great victories with an army of women at his command.

I like a decent funeral, and God knows in my family we've seen enough of them. Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.

When you walk alone, when everybody is against you, if you are sure with your ideas, walk strongly and proudly as if there is an army of angels by your side!

A marching army first crushes the flowers before the enemy; but even before this, it crushes its own conscience! Conscience and killing cannot be together.

Between Napoleon and his army, always choose Napoleon; because He can create another army, but his army cannot create a Napoleon!

The army of Truth is the real Invincible Armada. Truths are always destined to be victorious.

The high courage of a single man is an army all by itself!

The World's most powerful army is the Army of Medicine, as it is fighting against a real enemy, the most powerful one: The Death!

There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.

I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.

Thousands of alienated young Muslims, most of them born and bred here but who regard themselves as an army within, are waiting for an opportunity to help to destroy the society that sustains them.

Since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.

Textbooks don't teach people how to avoid paying any income tax. But that's what an army of tax lawyers and corporate tax accountants do.