Army Quotes - Page 6

• We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Hero, Soldier, Surrender

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• The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.

  Sean O'Casey

  Military, Fighting, Men

  Sean O'Casey (1973). “Sunset and evening star”, Pan

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• My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.

  Barry Humphries

  Children, Parent, Facts

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

  George S. Patton

  Country, Military, War

  Attributed in Patton (motion picture) (1970). This is sometimes said to have been uttered in a speech by Patton to the Sixth Armored Division of the Third Army, 31 May 1944, but documentation is lacking. The following poem appeared in the Bureau of Aeronautics Navy Department News Letter, 1 Jan. 1943: "The greatest duty of a sailor / Is duty from worries and cares, / Not to die for his country, / Make our enemies die for theirs!"

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• Why would it be ridiculous that Quebec has an army?

  Gilles Duceppe

  Ridiculous, Quebec

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• Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Veterans Day, War, Work

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• The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

  William Westmoreland

  Peace, Fear, Military

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Strength, Wisdom

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• A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.

  Daniel Boone

  Country, Powerful, Hero

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.22, Applewood Books

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• Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Challenges, Criticism, Literature

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.46, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.

  Blake Clark

  Military, Boys, Adults

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• If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Civil War, Mules, Ifs

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• A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.

  James Madison

  Military, Mischief, Standing

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• REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Military, Matter, Congress

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.768, Library of America

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• Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

  George Herbert

  Inspirational, Sports, Confidence

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.165

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• Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.

  Bill Vaughan

  Race, Individuality, Shadow

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• I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.

  Sally Quinn

  Mother, Religious, Father

  "Sally Quinn on Author Karen Armstrong". Online Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

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• Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.

  Joseph Stalin

  Stars, Reality

  "Conversations with Stalin" by Milovan Djilas, 1963.

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• When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Thank You, Cutting, Blow

  Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) "The Young British Soldier"

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• The Army was my bread and butter.

  Brian Lumley

  Bread, Bread And Butter

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• The relationship between officers and men should in no sense be that of superior and inferior, nor that of master and servant, but rather that of teacher and scholar. In fact, it should partake of the nature of the relationship between father and son, to the extent that officers, especially commanding officers, are responsible for the physical, mental, and moral welfare, as well as the discipline and military training of the young men under their command.

  John A. Lejeune

  Inspirational, Relationship, Teacher

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• Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war.

  George S. Patton

  War, Winning, Texas

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• Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. You are here today for three reasons. First, because you are here to defend your homes and your loved ones. Second, you are here for your own self respect, because you would not want to be anywhere else. Third, you are here because you are real men and all real men like to fight.

  George S. Patton

  Real, War, Home

  Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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• We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on?

  John W. Vessey, Jr.

  Running, Military, Marine

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• They say "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." In the Marine Corps, you can make that horse wish to hell he had.

  Fred Larson

  Horse, Military, Drinking

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