Army Quotes

When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.

Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army.

Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once.

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.

Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.

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

One has this image of the Soviet state and the Red Army as being extremely disciplined but in the first four months of 1945 their soldiers were completely out of control.

They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army - thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old.

The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France.

I can't expect loyalty from the army if I do not give it.

After all it was my father who founded the Burmese army and I do have a sense of warmth towards the Burmese army.

Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away.

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may require the protection of a national army.

I took Beetle home thinking that after the Korean War was over, I would have to take him out of the Army. I thought, well, what am I going to do with him?

With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate that grew worse throughout the year, waged in part by soldiers of the disbanded army and in part by criminals who were released from prison.

The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile.

Two new reports indicate that, under Bush, the Army is overstretched and under enormous strain. The National Guard and reserves have been weakened and we are experiencing numerous recruiting problems.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army.

I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared.

The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.

I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway.

If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.

My husband is a former Air Force pilot and my son is an active duty Army surgeon, recently returned from Iraq, so my pride in our military is passionate... and personal.

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

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

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.