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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I know I'm not the 'Indie It Girl' and I'll never have a big breakout, big runaway success. And that's okay.
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I talk to my kids about my mother's energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and polite my father was. So that they have some kind of remembrance that even though my parents died from their addictions and so that they know they were genuine in how they were.
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A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.
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Influence often isn't noticed until it blossoms later in the garden of someone else's life. Our words and actions may land close to home, or they may be carried far and wide.
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The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.
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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).
