Army Quotes
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Deep in the winter plain, two armies Dig their machinery, to destroy each other. Men freeze and hunger. No one is given leave On either side, except the dead, and wounded.
Stephen Spender
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When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training for its next deployment.
Hillary Clinton
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We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.
Richard L. Evans
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An army which cannot be reenforced is already defeated.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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He'll sit there are he'll say "Do this! Do that!" and nothing will happen. Poor Ike - it won't be a bit like the army.
Harry S Truman
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The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with.
George Washington
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Put the walls up. Get the better walls. There's no reason the army website should be hacked.
Eric Bolling
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I grew up as a part of the team that helped to field M-1s and M-60-A3s to the army back in 1980s.
Eric Shinseki
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Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
Sallust
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You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I'm Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat.
Ryan Adams
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The army taught me to sign my name very quickly, and that's stood me in good stead the rest of my life.
Nicky Oppenheimer
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I don't know what I am on set. I can be many different things on set depending on how stressful a situation is. But at the end of the day we're making movies, we're not saving the world... we're not an army, no one's lives are at risk and we're just trying to make art, so I think as long as you keep reminding yourself that's what it's about you can have fun.
Cary Fukunaga
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The wrath of Peleus' son, O Muse, resound;Whose dire effects the Grecian army found,And many a hero, king, and hardy knight,Were sent, in early youth, to shades of night.
John Dryden
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By the end of the Twentieth Century, taxation will be reduced to a minimum, the entire world will be open to trade, and there will be no need of a standing army.
Erastus Wiman
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Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is his corrupt commissariat; reform the commissariat and the army will do its duty.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I was in the Army in the 1960s. I didn't go to Vietnam. I went to Germany, where I drank beer. But I did have an empathy with the soldiers in Vietnam.
John Prine
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I need an army. I need people out there who are either preaching with me to different audiences that I can't get to or who are implementing the work and helping people actually learn their why or practice their why or implement their why because I don't do that.
Simon Sinek
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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
Lois McMaster
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For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.
Miguel de Cervantes
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An army that fought and won a war decisively finds it even more difficult to undergo change.
Eric Shinseki
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The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month.
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe
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Here he comes, moving among the enemies all on his own. Do you see? He acts alone, but he is not alone. He has an army behind him, also, my army; and with our lives we will fight to defend him.
Elizabeth Wein
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In the Army, I was very good at avoiding my job!
John Prine
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It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution.
Henry Louis Gates