Top 1200 Great Army Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.
...that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in the use of arms.
With respect to drugs, you know, there are a lot of organizations, including an enormous budget and an army at the federal government level that tries to deal with the drug problem.
Dogs really are perfect soldiers. They are brave and smart; they can smell through walls, see in the dark, and eat Army rations without complaint.
This [a state militia system] appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist.
If you leave out the magnetic stardom of sportsmen and actors, middle-class India today really has just two heroes - the army and the judiciary.
In the Army, I grew up with this view that you're asked to do anything that is illegal or immoral or unethical, then that would be the point at which you have to consider resignation, and you'd be willing to do that.
My mother was born in Latvia. She and most of her family fled from the capital city of Riga in 1944 with the final approach of the Soviet army.
It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues.
The Army needs leaders the way a foot needs a big toe.
And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in great words because the tales were great, and the listeners became great through them.
It has been said by a certain general, that the first object in the establishment of an army ought to be making provision for the belly, that being the basis and foundation of all operations.
It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.
It's not an idle boast that the British Army is, man for man, probably the best fighting force in the world.
The best-armed and best-trained divisions of the Syrian army are Alawite.
This army stays here until the last wounded man is removed. Before I leave them to the enemy, I will lose many more men.
If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.
My biological mother made my clothes or bought my clothes from Salvation Army or Goodwill.
I was discharged from the army for idiocy and officially certified by a special commission as an idiot. I'm an official idiot.
All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army.
Bounty hunters these days - because everything is so sophisticated with computers and surveillance, it doesn't have to be a one-man-army-type guy who goes in and kicks a door down.
I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers.
Most people don't realize that two-thirds of the federal budget is Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Pentagon. The U.S. government is an insurance company with an Army.
The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.
I do Y7 Yoga; I take a lot of Akin's Army classes, soul cycle, boot camps, tone house, SLT, boxing. I do everything.
A strategy would be how do we mobilize support for the remnants of the Syrian Free Army, and it might require combat troops to inspire an international effort.
For me personally, as I said, I want to serve my country. I've done it once, and I'm still in the army, I feel as though I should get the opportunity to do it again.
My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot about and was fond of the Army.
By Vietnam, the Jeep had given way to the helicopter, and it is hard to imagine a modern army fighting a war without this supremely adaptable workhorse.
I have got an infamous army, very weak and ill-equipped, and a very inexperienced staff.
Smallpox in a blanket, which the U.S. Army gave to the Cherokee Indians on their long march to the West, was nothing compared to what I'd like to see done to these people
You must remember that I won an Oscar for my role Johnny Eager. Then I went into the Army. But before I did, I was rushed into three other pictures to capitalize on the first.
Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
Who can forget that in critical times of war in 1962, 1965 and 1971, Naga underground organisations did not fire on the Indian Army? They showed restraint.
Early in my career, I served in the Army. I took care of wounded soldiers in Operation Desert Storm, and I saw what weapons of war do to human beings.
An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any force.
Few remember that the battle of Rorke's Drift was fought on the same day that the British Army suffered its most humiliating defeat at nearby Isandlwana.
The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.
One thing every Army pilot knows is that there is no such thing as a routine mission.
Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.
I'm trying to build a good fanbase, a good army behind me of people and supporters.
Coming from art school, I had a great sense of style - as did The Beatles and the Stones - and I enjoyed projecting that. Image, attitude, great music and great lyrics - that was the '60s.
It is so cool to be able to stand as a witness of Christ and to be able to be proud of it and be part of His army.
Let's keep our boots polished, bayonets sharpened, and present a picture of force and strength to the Red Army. This is the only language they understand and respect.
I'd breed a little liberal army in the wood, just like these redneck lunatics I see at the local bar with their tribe of mutant inbred piglets.
(A)ny time you buy weapons, or build an army, you begin to look for an excuse to use them. Plus, you pose more of a threat to others.
When my brother came home from NDA (National Defence Academy), I felt, 'Wow, I should like to wear that uniform.' But I didn't want to join the army.
The all-volunteer army works. It works particularly when we pay our troops well.
I've been extremely lucky having been in the army when I was a boy of fourteen.
I was in Estonia when a professor asked me if I was aware that making any criticism of the Red Army during the war was now an imprisonable offence. I was quite shaken.
Where the army is, prices are high; when prices rise the wealth of the people is exhausted.
The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.
I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy.
Boilersuits are used by everybody from pilots in the army to racing drivers to people who clean your drains. The one piece overall is what all males secretly desire.
Only a modern army will be able to fight a modern war.
The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory and to save an empire.
I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engraved Swiss Army knife is never refused!
And here is the lesson I learned in the army. If you want to do a thing badly, you have to work at it as though you want to do it well.
We have to face the fact that ISIS and its army of like-minded jihadists are determined to win that war and believe they are on the path to victory. They may well be right.
There is only one Army in which you serve. When that identity is gone, it is gone forever.
