Army Quotes
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I was born in East Germany, before the wall came down. We sort of escaped, I guess. I grew up all over the place. Germany, London, back and forth between Minnesota and Germany. I was sort of an army brat, but not in the army.
Falk Hentschel
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Without an industrial economy, the modern army, as in America, could not exist; it is an army of machines. Professional economists usually consider military institutions as parasitic upon the means of production. Now, however, such institutions have come to shape much of the economic life of the United States.
C. Wright Mills
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I wanted to join the Army when football failed. That was my only realistic form of making an honest living.
Jack O'Connell
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I know who Queen Elizabeth represents. I know she's the head of the British state. I know she has all sorts of titles in relation to different regiments in the British army. She knows my history. She knows I was a member of the IRA. She knows I was in conflict with her soldiers, yet both of us were prepared to rise above all of that.
Martin McGuinness
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
Victor Hugo
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
Damian Lewis
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If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.
Ralph Baer
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There is an utter ignorance of, and indifference to, our sufferings and privations….What care they for us, provided we be submissive, pay the taxes, furnish recruits for the Army and Navy and bless the masters who either despise or oppress or combine both? The apathy that exists respecting Ireland is worse than the national antipathy they bear us.
Daniel O'Connell
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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.
Eddie Slovik
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Florida is an awesome place to find sweaters. People buy a really nice sweater for their trips up north, then they just keep it in the closet forever, so you're finding super nice sweaters down here at the Salvation Army. It's hard to say no sometimes.
Jim Drain
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Some say an army of horsemen, or infantry, A fleet of ships is the fairest thing
On the face of the black earth, but I say It's what one loves.
Sappho
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
A. Philip Randolph