Top 1200 Us Army Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

I don't need a U.N. report to tell me whether my army... operates according to the international law guidelines.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

A cherished cause and a general who inspires confidence by previous success are powerful means of electrifying an army.

The government's only functions are to protect the rights of the individual; therefore, you need a police force and an army.

ISIS already has strongholds in Syria, while the Free Syrian Army desperately needs more U.S. assistance.

The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely.

My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.

Let's withdraw from Afghanistan and have the army invade America - that's the only way we'll get new schools and roads.

I can't destroy the whole army, and anyway [Tikka Khan] bad reputation for the events in Dacca is exaggerated.

We also very importantly recommend continued growth in the Army and the Marine Corps end strength.

Rambo was a Green Beret," Hannah said. "Please. We eat those army boys for breakfast.

I, serial number 30743, Major General Yitzhak Rabin, am a soldier in the army of peace.

Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline.

What thousands and millions of recollections there must be in us! And every now and then one of them becomes known to us; and it shows us what spiritual depths are growing in us, what mines of memory.

War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.

Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded.

One of the most beautiful things about Britain, apart from the NHS and the free education, is the British Army.

I was in the New Zealand army for like four years, the exact period of when it was on the air, so I never saw it.

Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us, For we have no help but Thee.

We have two companies of MARINES running all over this island and thousands of ARMY troops doing nothing!

People have asked me, 'What would you have done if you hadn't gone into the Army?' I'd say I'd probably be a bus driver. I don't know.

When the [US] president writes to Kim Jong Il, the son, the Dear Leader, he doesn't call him Dear Mr President, he calls him Dear Mr Secretary. Have you ever noticed that? Why is that? Because he's not the president of North Korea, he's the head of the Communist Party, the North Korean Workers' Party and he's the head of the Army. He's not head of the state. The head of the state is his father, who's been dead for 15 years.

The Army of Northern Virginia was never defeated. It merely wore itself out whipping the enemy.

All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.

When I was in the army in the Golani troops, I served with Zionist and modern Orthodox guys and I became friends with them.

Groundless superstition ill befits an army; valor is the only deity that rules in the warrior's breast.

One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army.

Pakistani nation and Pak Army have written a new history of bravery and valor against terrorism.

Hopefully, if I get enough of a fan army together, people will let me write fiction.

Our sense of identity is in large measure conferred on us by others in the ways they treat or mistreat us, recognize or ignore us, praise us or punish us. Some people make us timid and shy; others elicit our sex appeal and dominance. In some groups we are made leaders, while in others we are reduced to being followers. We come to live up to or down to the expectations others have of us.

I suppose I could have called in the whole of the Army, but what was the use? All I had to do was call in Main Street itself.

Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient.

Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.

Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle .... They conquer by strategy.

I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.

Let us do something, while we have the chance! ... Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for one the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us!

If you were lost for America, there is nobody who could keep the army and the revolution [going] for six months.

And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the Army, so he could help me in that direction.

To do the things that I did, I'm amazed that I had the audacity - like resigning from the Army and becoming a janitor and a songwriter.

Because the pop industry is cruel, if you don't do everything the label wants you to do, it has an army of other people waiting to do it.

[Louis] Brandeis is writing directly to us. His clear voice comes through a century and he's speaking to us and he's galvanizing us and he's persuading us. And that's why I love to read the prose.

If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you in losing your cruelty? It merely deprives you of the food of lions and vultures...let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

The Scripture stories do not, like Homer’s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant us—they seek to subject us, and if we refuse to be subjected we are rebels.

As the rising sun melts thinly frozen ice, so the Japanese Army is overcoming Chinese troops.

I was in high school and 9/11 happened. My boyfriend joined the army and I was extremely disgusted with this war fervour.

In 1998, I was trained by the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army ] in London how to pretend to be a geologist.

Cesare persuaded King Louis to lend him an entire army to defeat me. I'm flattered.

I ended up in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific, operating out of Ayuka field in Hawaii.

Lord, you are God! You made us. Who better to know how to fix us when we've gone wrong? who better to set us to rights again? Who better to love us through the fire and refine us into something beautiful and useful despite our wrongs?

I wanted to join the Army when football failed. That was my only realistic form of making an honest living.

We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process we lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win. The North Vietnamese used their armed forces the way a bull-fighter uses his cape to keep us lunging in areas of marginal political importance.

I am not fond of speaking about politics because I don't have in my possession an army of 200,000 soldiers.

Victory is the ability to fight five minutes longer than any other army in the world.

As a former Captain in the Army National Guard, I trained hundreds of soldiers to lead troops into combat.

Give us Direction; the best of goodwill; Put us in touch with fair winds. Sing to us softly, hum the evening's song. Tell us what the blacksmith has done for you.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

Spies are a most important element in water, because on them depends an army's ability to move.

To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as we do, thinks with us, loves with us, and, above all, sins with us.

Serving in the Israeli Army taught me what it means to be part of something greater than yourself.

Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.