Us Army Quotes

And now she has you seizing control of my army.” “Your army? I thought this was Gaunt’s.” “So did he.

Army Specialist Bradley Manning deserves a medal, not prison.

For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.

The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers.

It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command.

My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.

... the running shoe ... could be called the Swiss Army knife of footwear ... What appeal is there to a shoe whose only selling point is comfort?

I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer.

I do believe that by virtue of having a volunteer army, you are going to have men and women who decide to serve and others who decide to pursue different careers.

The existence of such an [international Islamic] army rules out the superpowers' interference in disputes among Muslim countries.

We are not governed by armies or police, but by ideas.

I was taking chemical engineering. But I went into the army after that. When I came out of the army, I was a different person. I met a lot of good jazz players in the army.

So I didn't pass. It was the army's decision that they didn't want me to go into the service. They're the boss. I don't want to say no whole lot about it.

But when I looked at a lot of the questions they had on them army tests, I just didn't know the answers. I don't even know how to start after finding the answers. That's all.

In Brazil there are more Avon ladies than members of the army. In the United States more money is spent on beauty than on education or social services.

When a leader has deployed a private army, that is one definition of a police state. Another is when the president, or a leader, has his own treasury.

An army which cannot be reenforced is already defeated.

I generally had to give in.

France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier.

An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons.

One might as well try to charge through a wall.

Victory and disaster establish indestructible bonds between armies and their commanders.

We will form an army of poor, where every poor will be a soldier and we will win the war against poverty on behalf of their strength.

I can assure our countrymen that India is safe in the hands of the brave warriors of our Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard.

Anyone can practice some nonviolence, even soldiers. Some army generals, for example, conduct their operations in ways that avoid killing innocent people; this is a kind of nonviolence.

Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined by the occupied population.

The communists were mainly responsible for the destruction of the Spanish anarchists. Not just in Catalonia - the communist armies mainly destroyed the collectives elsewhere.

George Washington hated the guerrillas. He wanted to imitate the British red coat armies, fighting as gentlemen are supposed to fight.

The UN to some extent diffuses U.S. power. Therefore it's less direct an agency of the United States than the U.S. Army is. But still, it can't escape the distribution of power in the world.

To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder... The Army functions best when you're frightened of the man above you, and contemptuous of your subordinates.

Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read.

We run down the right fork, Manchee at our heels, the night and a dusty road stretching out in front of us, an army and a disaster behind us, me and Viola, running side by side.

I'm not implying that fantasy is for kids. I'm saying that more and more people are finally realizing that there's more to fantasy stories than elves and wizards and goblin armies.

Asia has an army of low-wage laborers to thank for its economic boom.

I would say that the emotional content of the film [Swiss Army Man] took me by surprise, and sometimes I would probably want to capture the unique tone of it.

If you could call me buff, my version of buff was when I finished that film [Swiss Army Man].

I was actually thinking about starting like an app where you can watch videos of me carrying Daniel [Radcliffe in Swiss Army Man].

I love that it's such an uncynical film [Swiss Army Man]. I think it's got a lot of love in there, and I think that's a nice thing in this day and age.

I regretted not being a person in shape many a day while we were making this film [Swiss Army Man].

I think it was a lot of trust as well [between me and Daniel Radcliffe]. If we didn't have that, it could be a very painful film [ Swiss Army Man] to go make.

The federal government is basically an insurance company with an army.

[The US] budget is dominated by the retirement programs, Social Security and Medicare - loosely speaking, the post-cold-war federal government is a big pension fund that also happens to have an army.

I know that I was conscious of all the aspects of the war, having had cousins who were in the army, who would send me notes and memorabilia. I began to collect things that they would send me.

Today, the army only occupies the territory once the war is over.

Fashion is merely a saying: I belong to your world. I'm wearing the same uniform as your army, so don't shoot.

Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.

The military is sort of the ultimate test of proving that you're a man, and certainly that whole idea was very much uppermost in my mind when I joined the Army.

Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years.

I appeal to women not to let themselves become corrupted by male power. Emancipation is something more than a 'ticket' to serve in the army.

A liar ought to have a good memory.