Armies Quotes
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What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins, what cities in ashes, what hunger and nakedness, what orphanages, what widowhood, what wrongs and what vengeance.
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Great armies are nothing but a collection of weakness.
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Governments move armies, but only individuals can move hearts.
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I fear the prayers of John Knox more than all the assembled armies of Europe.
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Armies are not only for offensives.
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Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished.
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Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.
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The basic principle that we must follow in directing the armies of the Republic is this: that they must feed themselves on war at the expense of the enemy territory.
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Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
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History shows that there are no invincible armies.
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The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.
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Armies for the preservation of peace do not exist; they exist only for the triumphant exertion of war.
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Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.
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As long as there are armies, there will be a war. I don’t care about symbols.
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The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the strength of their own thought.
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A people who mean to be free must be prepared to meet danger in person, and not rely upon the fallacious protection of armies...
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If we had adhered to the concept of connectedness, then we would not have created nuclear weapons, huge armies and global warming.
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All the armies of Europe combined could not by force make a track upon the Blue Ridge, or take a drink from the Ohio. If we are to be destroyed, we must do it ourselves.
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Thorn bushes grow where armies have camped.
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In the armies and among every ten men there is one of more life, of more heart, or at least of more authority, who with his courage, with words and by example keeps the others firm and disposed to fight.
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I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men-I saw them; I saw the debris and debris of all the dead soldiers of the war; But I saw they were not as was thought; They themselves were fully at rest-they suffered not; The living remained and suffered-the mother suffered, And the wife and the child, and the musing comrade suffered, And the armies that remained suffered.
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Incorporating in their colorful, slashing, superbly readable pages, the major themes of the "left" opposition under Walpole, these libertarian tracts, emerging first in the form of denunciations of standing armies in the reign of William III, left an indelible imprint on the "country" mind everywhere in the English-speaking world.
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The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.
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When equal armies battle, the grieving one will be victorious.
