Ferdinand Foch Quotes
An army is to a chief what a sword is to a soldier. It is only worth anything in so far as it receives from him a certain impulsion (direction and vigour).
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How can we make sure that Confucianism is to be practiced? One must enforce it with power, and to have power, one must have a strong army.
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Conscientious objection is an intrinsic part of being a soldier.
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Let me start by saying I wish no country had the need for an army. But in Israel, serving is part of being an Israeli. You've got to give back to the state. You give two or three years, and it's not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect.
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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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There is no doubt that counterterrorism takes time because it is not action against a regular army.
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I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story.
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I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.
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When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.
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What drew me to the character is that Roberto Duran is the son of an American soldier - a Marine - stationed in Panama and a humble Panamanian mother, and he was abandoned.
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My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.
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My dad was in the Army, so what was happening internationally and nationally was always important to my family.
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In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.
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In reference to the Army and Navy, lately employed with so much distinction on active service, care shall be taken to insure the highest condition of efficiency; and in furtherance of that object, the Military and Naval Schools, sustained by the liberality of Congress, shall receive the special attention of the Executive.
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My older brother, who was in the Army, now owns his own building company. My half-sister was a nurse and is now a psychotherapist.
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My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army, but I never called them 'sir' or 'ma'am' or anything like that, and we never really moved around a lot because both my parents were stationed in D.C.
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The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
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Somehow I feel a little bit odd in Tiananmen Square because I was a soldier, in a uniform, watching those leaders and tanks, and I was part of them.
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Now a willpower that I have polished with an artist's delight will sustain some shaky legs and some weary lungs. I will do it. Give a thought once in awhile to this little soldier of fortune of the twentieth century.
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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
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I don't think you have a choice but to pull CO2 back that has already made it out, or is about to make it out, because we are not overnight shutting down all the coal plants.
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I feel such a difference between a philologist/linguist and a linguaphile as, say, a choreographer and a ballerina.
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An army is to a chief what a sword is to a soldier. It is only worth anything in so far as it receives from him a certain impulsion (direction and vigour).
