Armies Quotes

Armies are not only for offensives.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely.

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies.

Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.

Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides.

History shows that there are no invincible armies.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

They called themselves an army. They were planning on recruiting more armies. They were planning on splitting up and forming smaller cells and going into different areas, recruiting more members and just growing until they had started a full scale war in this country.

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.