Army Quotes
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Without the elected president and if there is a freak result, within two or three years, the army would have to come in and stop it
Lee Kuan Yew
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My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.
Georgina Chapman
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There are guerrilla armies that make little boys kill their own families. Such acts rip out the soul and make space for beasts to grow inside. Armies need beasts, don’t they? Pet beasts, to do their terrible work!
Laini Taylor
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Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army.
Joseph Stalin
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In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory.
Etgar Keret
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Yes, we need a force to continue to train, assist, advise the Iraqi army.
Jack Keane
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In the Army when we had judo classes, out of the class of 27 just me and another guy graduated. I grew to enjoy it because I knew I could do it well. I tried to do everything well.
Jack Kirby
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Before they deploy, they train for the specific operations, but there is a danger that the Army is not retaining the core of its full capabilities.
Des Browne
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The family provides the army and navy with the best men and boys that it possesses. And, as we have seen, education and science too are becoming means to the ends sought by the military.
C. Wright Mills
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France is the nation of the rights of man. … I am sure that none of you commits the insult of thinking that the government, the army, or the administration could wish for and organize torture.
Jean Monnet
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Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army.
Bulent Ecevit
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Me and apparently a lot of other people felt that the people who should benefit most from the country are the people who contribute the most, which is the middle class, who are drafted into the army, spend three years there and 25 years in the reserves. That is why I had enough votes to create out of nowhere the second-largest party in the country.
Yair Lapid
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It was the same thing in the army, no respect. They gave me a uniform that glowed in the dark.
Jack Roy
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When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only had thirty thousand people in it - it practically lifted me out of my chair.
David McCullough
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I wanted - and still want - to tell my mother's story. She fled Stalin's army in 1944, leaving Latvia, which was to be occupied by the Soviets for the next 50 years, and arrived to the U.S. when she was 11.
Amity Gaige
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I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains.
Bill Mauldin
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Vanguard. Jackson’s division was the old valley army.
S. C. Gwynne
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The last thing I want to do is be mollycoddled or be wrapped up in cotton wool, because if I was to join the Army, I would want to go where my men went, and I'd want to do what they did. I would not want to be kept back for being precious, or whatever - that's the last thing I would want.
Prince William
