Top 457 Armies Quotes & Sayings

Our armies were in as much chaos in victory as theirs in defeat.

It is war now, and armies need symbols.

I have left the obvious, essential fact to this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in tearing the guts out of the German army. In the air and on the oceans we could maintain our place, but there was no force in the world which could have been called into being, except after several more years, that would have been able to maul and break the German army unless it had been subjected to the terrible slaughter and manhandling that has fallen to it through the strength of the Russian Soviet Armies.

It is useless to send armies against ideas.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

We see a transformation of warfare from the big armies and battlefields in open spaces to a fragmentation of armed groups and smaller armies, which move into city centres, which increasingly become the theatre of warfare.

When equal armies battle, the grieving one will be victorious.

And nothing formed against me shall stand. You hold the whole world in Your hands. I'm holding onto Your promises. You are faithful. You are faithful. You are faithful. I know Who goes before me. I know Who stands behind. The God of angel armies is always by my side. The One who reigns forever, He is a Friend of mine. The God of angel armies Is always by my side.

Armies under the control of ... a sovereign State cannot bring freedom to anyone.

Two armies at death-grips — that is one great army committing suicide.

We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought.

Ideas are very important to the shaping of society. In fact, they are more powerful than bombings or armies or guns. And this is because ideas are capable of spreading without limit. They are behind all the choices we make. They can transform the world in a way that governments and armies cannot. Fighting for liberty with ideas makes more sense to me than fighting with guns or politics or political power. With ideas, we can make real change that lasts.

Victory and disaster establish indestructible bonds between armies and their commanders.

I fear the prayers of John Knox more than all the assembled armies of Europe

It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.

Have you ever asked yourself,do monsters make war, or does war make monsters? I've seen things, angel. There are guerrilla armies that make little boys kill thier 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! And the worst part is, it's almost impossible to retrieve a soul that has been ripped away. Almost." He gave Akiva a keen look."But it can be done, if ever...if ever you decide to go looking for yours."___Izil

Preemptive war is what Israel did in '67 with Arab armies on its borders.

Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.

Armies are not only for offensives.

One of the things I think the police have to do is to stop behaving like armies.

... the benefit arising from moderate use of strong Liquor have been experienced in all Armies, and are not to be disputed.

The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life in terms of compromise, rule-bending, trade-offs, concessions, bargaining, striking deals, finding middle ground. In these two great armies, there was no such thing. Good was good, and evil was evil, and they shared no common ground.

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few... No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

The armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon are poised on the borders of Israel ... to face the challenge, while standing behind us are the armies of Iraq, Algeria, Kuwait, Sudan and the whole Arab nation. This act will astound the world. Today they will know that the Arabs are arranged for battle, the critical hour has arrived. We have reached the stage of serious action and not of more declarations.

National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

History shows that there are no invincible armies.

Were there no uniforms, there would probably be no armies.

Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.

Thorn bushes grow where armies have camped.

Great armies are nothing but a collection of weakness.

Love of country follows from the exercise of its freedoms, not from pride in its fleets or its armies.

If goods don't cross borders, armies will.

It is not big armies that win battles, it is the good ones.

We know that Maduro's armies are riddled with persecution, torture, threats, and wrongful arrests.

Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.

When great armies go to war, Sorrow is the sole winner.

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

We don't need mass armies anymore. We replace it with more effective equipment.

Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators.

Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster.

The most dangerous states in the international system are continental powers with large armies.

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!

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going to rest on who could do the best job of bringing up their kids to become efficient and effective soldiers. That's pretty grandiose, I guess, but I do think that, and thank God it's been the armies of democracy that have emerged from this as the triumphant armies.

We have an army for fighting as well as an army for labour. For fighting, we have the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies but even they do a dual job, warfare and production. With these two kinds of armies, and with a fighting army skilled in these two tasks and in mass work, we can overcome our difficulties and defeat Japanese imperialism.

Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.

Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

We are not governed by armies or police, but by ideas.

Didn't people consider what could happen if armies of farm animals united in revolt?

One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies.

Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished.

Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.

There are routes not to be followed, armies not to be attacked, citadels not to be besieged, territory not to be fought over.

The armies, the difference of all of those armies that had been fighting each other and the Taliban took advantage of that to rule over the whole country.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

Countries, not just their armies, win wars.

Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.