Troops Quotes

• I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them.

  

  Ernie Pyle
  • Change
  • Fighting
  • Spring

• I will give up troops gladly as long as I know that they will be used in the right place to bring victory.

  

  Erich Ludendorff
  • Right
  • Victory
  • Used

• I applaud President Obama's decision to begin a partial withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan. However, I believe that we must go further and have a full withdrawal of all U.S. combat troops.

  

  Susan Bysiewicz
  • Troops
  • Afghanistan
  • Withdrawal

• Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role.

  

  Heinz Guderian
  • War
  • Play
  • Battle

• The pomp, power, and military bombast of 'La Marseillaise' draws me into the history of France and my own. The surname I was born with was French: D'Orsay; perhaps an ancestor was amongst those troops that marched to this evocative anthem for the first time as they entered Paris 200 years ago!

  

  Engelbert Humperdinck
  • History
  • Military
  • French

• War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Game
  • Reputation
  • Troops

• Winning depended to a large extent on the determination of the troops and the officers. The certainty that we were going to win kept up everyone's spirits, from privates to generals.

  

  Georgy Zhukov
  • Winning
  • Spirits
  • Troops

• It is clear that the Trump administration doesn't have the same reticence that the Obama administration did in terms of putting more boots on the ground, especially conventional troops, as opposed to special operations troops.

  

  Andrew Exum
  • Operations
  • Troops
  • Putting

• We will be drawing down some troops. If the president wants to try to turn that into the beginning of a success, he actually, I think, has some opportunity.

  

  Stuart Rothenberg
  • Trying
  • Opportunity
  • President

• I agree with the president Barack Obama. I've said myself, we will not send American combat troops back to either Syria or Iraq - that is off the table.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Iraq
  • Syria
  • President Barack Obama

• The president Barack Obama decided to leave more troops than he had originally planned in Afghanistan. We have a very cooperative government there, with Ashraf Ghani and his top - his top partner, Abdullah. And they are doing their very best. And the Afghan army is actually fighting. The Afghan army is taking heavy losses defending Afghan territory.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Troops
  • Afghanistan
  • President Barack Obama

• Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.

  

  Erwin Rommel
  • Success
  • Enemy
  • Fight

• We are not putting ground troops into Iraq ever again. And we're not putting ground troops into Syria. We're going to defeat ISIS without committing American ground troops.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Iraq
  • Syria
  • ISIS

• Until the millennium arrives and countries cease trying to enslave others, it will be necessary to accept one's responsibilities and be willing to make sacrifices for one's country - as my comrades did. As the troops used to say, "If the country is good enough to live in, it's good enough to fight for." With privilege goes responsibility.

  

  Eugene B. Sledge
  • Fight
  • Responsibilities
  • Troops

• To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous.

  

  John Hewson
  • War
  • Ridiculous
  • Troops

• We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Olympics
  • Afghanistan
  • Officers

• I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.

  

  Siegfried Sassoon
  • Troops
  • Sufferings
  • Unjust

• When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change overnight from an administrator, dealing with taxation and welfare and health and deteriorating roads, into the commander-in-chief. And it's just become almost unpatriotic to describe Bush's fallacious and ill-advised and mistaken and sometimes misleading actions.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • War
  • Change
  • President

• My wife and I look for ways to always support the troops, including sending care packages regularly to them.

  

  Scott McClellan
  • Support
  • Wife
  • Troops

• You had to get on the ground with your troops to see and hear what was happening. You have to soak up firsthand information for your instincts to operate accurately. Besides, it’s too easy to be crisp, cool, and detached at 1, 500 feet; too easy to demand the impossible of your troops; too easy to make mistakes that are fatal only to those souls far below in the mud, the blood, and the confusion.

  

  Hal Moore
  • Information
  • Instincts
  • Troops

• He who leads troops has no right to think about himself.

  

  Walter Model
  • Thinking
  • Troops

• The best form of welfare for the troops is first-rate training.

  

  Erwin Rommel
  • Training
  • Welfare
  • Troops

• Oh, my dear. My young wife. When the troops come home after the victory, and you do not see me, please look at the proud colors. You will see me there, and you will feel warm under the shadow of the bamboo tree.

  

  Hal Moore
  • Victory
  • Troops

• Put the welfare of your troops above your own. They eat before you eat; they sleep before you sleep.

  

  Hal Moore
  • Welfare
  • Troops

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