Army Quotes - Page 9

• We have two companies of MARINES running all over this island and thousands of ARMY troops doing nothing!

  John W. Vessey, Jr.

  Running, Marine, Two

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• The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Feelings, Soldier, Navy

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• Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Moving, Aquariums

  Sun-tzu, Gerald A. Michaelson (2001). “Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers; 50 Strategic Rules”, p.213, Adams Media

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  War, Thinking, Talking

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.568, Library of America

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• The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, they will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and their incomes dissipated.

  Sun Tzu

  Home, Loss, People

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.11, Xist Publishing

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• They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  May, Six, Hundred

  Desiderius Erasmus (1959). “The Praise of Folly”

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• The Army has carried the American... ideal to its logical conclusion... Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on the grounds of ability.

  Tom Lehrer

  Funny, Military, Race

  "Introduction to 'It Makes a Fellow Proud to be a Soldier'". CD Audio "An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer", March 20-21, 1959.

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• Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe.

  Noah Webster

  Country, Gun, Europe

  Noah Webster (1787). “An Examination Into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution Proposed by the Late Convention Held at Philadelphia: With Answers to the Principal Objections that Have Been Raised Against the System”, p.43

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• There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

  John Ashbery

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

  1989 In the International Herald Tribune, 2 Oct.

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• Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time.

  Moshe Sharett

  Thinking, Blood, People

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• It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.

  Adnan Pachachi

  Authority, Wells

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• ...The Marines have been the first to land-on embattled beaches throughout the world-we share the unfaltering confidence of all Americans that they will land again-and land hard.

  Herbert F. Leary

  Confidence, Beach, Military

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• My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot about and was fond of the Army.

  Stuart Symington

  Father, Military, Law

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• Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmacht's preparations.

  Leopold Trepper

  Preparation, Red, Updates

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• America loves a winner, and will not tolerate a loser, this is why America has never, and will never, lose a war.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, America

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• Just look at the Old Testament. They didn't go out with the army first. They sent the musicians out.

  Michael W. Smith

  Musician, Looks, Firsts

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• You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.

  John Stossel

  Country, Borders, Crosses

  "Is Ron Paul Hurting the Libertarian Movement?". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. October 4, 2011.

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• Every friend of freedom... must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

  Milton Friedman

  Jail, Alcohol, Drug

  "An Open Letter to Bill Bennett". Milton Friedman, The Wall Street Journal, September 7, 1989.

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• It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.

  Andre Gide

  Fall, Gun, Hands

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• I had a tremendous horror of going into the Army. That is probably why I went to college for so long.

  Bruce Conner

  College, Long, Horror

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• What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty ... Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.

  Elbridge Gerry

  Freedom, Mean, Gun

  House of Representatives, Amendments to the Constitution, August 17, 1789.

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

  Joseph Stalin

  Courage, Retreat, Call Of Duty

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

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• I got into boxing for two reasons. One was that my father was a boxer. Secondly when I was young, all healthy men in the UK had to do two years "National Service" in one of the armed forces. I chose the Royal Air Force over the Army and Navy. My father's reputation went before me and therefore the RAF encouraged me to box. There is much rivalry in sporting competitions between the Army, Navy and RAF. Competing has great privileges. I didn't need too much encouragement with all these perks being offered, so I started training with a vengeance.

  Brian London

  Encouragement, Father, Boxing

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Hate

  Speech in Ottawa on January 10, 1946. "Eisenhower Speaks: Dwight D. Eisenhower in His Messages and Speeches". Book edited by Rudolph L. Treuenfels, 1948.

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• Any army which does not train to use all the weapons, all the means and methods of warfare that the enemy possesses, or may possess, is behaving in an unwise or even criminal manner. This applies to politics even more than it does to the art of war.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Art, War, Mean

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