Army Quotes - Page 16

• We stand for self-reliance. We hope for foreign aid but cannot be dependent on it; we depend on our own efforts, on the creative power of the whole army and the entire people.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Self, People

  Zedong Mao (1967). “Selected Works”

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

  Arthur Eddington

  Book, Writing, Museums

  The Nature of the Physical World ch. 4 (1928)

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• So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.

  Agnes Smedley

  Boys, Men, Doctors

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• You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.

  James Wolfe

  Fear, Numbers, Force

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• I regret that the Army felt it was necessary to rescind their invitation to the National Day of Prayer Task Force to participate in the Pentagon's special prayer service. I want to express my strong support for the United States military and all our troops. I will continue to pray that God will give them guidance, wisdom and protection as they serve this great country.

  Franklin Graham

  Country, Strong, Regret

  "Franklin Graham Regrets Army's Decision to Rescind Invite to Pentagon Prayer Service", www.foxnews.com. April 22, 2010.

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• It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression.

  Che Guevara

  Ruins, Revolution, Republican

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• Soldiers are the foundation of an army; unless they are imbued with a progressive political spirit, and unless such a spirit is fostered through progressive political work, it will be impossible to achieve genuine unity between officers and men, impossible to arouse their enthusiasm for the War of Resistance to the full, and impossible to provide an excellent basis for the most effective use of all our technical equipment and tactics.

  Mao Zedong

  War, Men, Political

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.75, Lulu.com

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• We were taught to be dependable, responsible, the top of our classes at school, the most organized and efficient babysitters in town, the very miniature models of our hardworking farmer/nurse mother, a pair of junior Swiss Army knives, born to multitask.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Mother, School, Knives

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.63, A&C Black

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• How's his appendix?""Like crap. They almost didn't catch it in time, and he's still doing the ass-plant in a hospital bed, beingdoted on by an army of hot nurses. Makes me sick.""Maybeyou should rupture something.""Any more of these stories out of you and I just might.

  Marjorie M. Liu

  Nurse, Sick, Bed

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• In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out.

  Paul von Hindenburg

  Afterlife, Battle, Would Be

  Paul von Hindenburg (1921). “Out of My Life”

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

  Duke of Wellington

  Scum Of The Earth, Waterloo, Mere

  Quoted in Philip Henry Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1888) (entry for 4 Nov. 1831)

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

  Rumi

  Night, Light, Heaven

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.45, Lulu.com

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• On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose, Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend . . . He reached a middle height, and at the stars, Which are the brain of heaven, he looked, and sank. Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.

  George Meredith

  Stars, Tired, Dark

  'Lucifer in Starlight'

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• Army life don't agree with me.

  Eddie Slovik

  Agreement, Agree

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• 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.

  Jim Ryun

  Jewels, America, United States

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• We also very importantly recommend continued growth in the Army and the Marine Corps end strength.

  John M. McHugh

  Marine, Growth, Ends

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• Be heroes in an army of construction.

  Helen Keller

  Hero, Construction

  Helen Keller's Speech at Carnegie Hall, New York City, under the auspices of the Women's Peace Party and the Labor Forum, January 5, 1916.

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• I sing the body electric,
  The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,
  They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
  And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.

  Walt Whitman

  Soul, Body, Let Me

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• If you remove the English army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain.

  James Connolly

  Effort, Flags, Dublin

  James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.124, Pluto Press

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• You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won’t. Especially not astrophysicists -we see the biggest picture there is. We understand how small we are in the cosmos. We understand how fragile and temporary our existence is here on Earth. We understand there are bigger problems we need to solve as a species than what God you pray to.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Battle, Needs, Cosmos

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• With the backdrop of The Salvation Army's century and a half of service to the world's poor, these songs and reflections are born of meaningful engagement with a living Gospel

  Sara Groves

  Meaningful, Song, Reflection

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• Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us the spirit of resistance, has made us think we cannot look after ourselves or put up a defense against foreign aggression, or even defend our homes and families.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Crush, Home, Thinking

  Mahatma Gandhi (1930). “Young India”

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

  Groucho Marx

  Money, War, Firefly

  "Fictional character: Rufus T. Firefly". "Duck Soup", www.imdb.com. 1933.

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• The eyes of mankind will be upon you to see whether the Government, which is now more popular than it has been for many years past, will be productive of more virtue moral and political. We may look up to Armies for our Defense, but Virtue is our best Security. It is not possible that any State should long remain free, where Virtue is not supremely honored.

  Samuel Adams

  Eye, Past, Government

  Massachusetts Historical Society, John Adams, Samuel Adams, James Warren (1917). “Warren-Adams Letters: Being Chiefly a Correspondence Among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren ... 1743-1814”

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• I am the best damn ass-kicker in the whole U.S. Army!

  George S. Patton

  Kickers, Ass, Damn

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