Famous Quotes - Tags - Army

  • An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy. More
  • Armies, for the most part, are made up of men drawn from simple and peaceful lives. In time of... More
  • Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children? More
  • Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever? More
  • Conscription may have been good for the country, but it damn near killed the army. More
  • Croft had an instinctive knowledge of land, sensed the stresses and torsions that had first... More
  • Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He’s the chap who makes it possible for civilised... More
  • Drinking is the soldier’s pleasure. More
  • Drinking is the soldier’s pleasure;
    Rich the treasure;
    Sweet the pleasure;
    Sweet is... More
  • Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea. More
  • Gentlemen, I did not seek this command, but since it’s been assigned me, I intend to make this... More
  • He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery,
    And how to scale a fortress—or a nunnery. More
  • History shows that there are no invincible armies. More
  • Horribly stuffed with epithets of war. More
  • I don’t know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they terrify me. More
  • I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what... More
  • I would rather have a plain, russet-coated captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what... More
  • If I should die, think only this of me:
    That there’s some corner of a foreign... More
  • If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for... More
  • In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army... More
  • It’s simple: either you have discipline or you haven’t. More
  • Join the Army and See the Navy. More
  • Looks to me as if you’re trying to acquire a reputation as a lone wolf, Prewitt. You should... More
  • No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both... More
  • Now, you mummy’s darlings, get a rift on them boots. Definitely shine ‘em, my little... More
  • O the joy of the strong-brawn’d fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious... More
  • O, Nelly Gray! O, Nelly Gray!
    Is this your love so warm?
    The love that loves a scarlet... More
  • Oh, how I hate to get up in the morning,
    Oh, how I’d love to remain in bed. More
  • On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens. More
  • Rogues, would you live forever? More
  • Soldiers are citizens of death’s grey land.
    ...
    Soldiers are sworn to action; they must... More
  • Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of... More
  • Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines,... More
  • That’s what an army is—a mob; they don’t fight with courage that’s born in them, but with... More
  • The army is the true nobility of our country. More
  • The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. More
  • The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very... More
  • The General Order is always to manoeuver in a body and on the attack; to maintain strict but not... More
  • The Government is able to afford a suitable army and a suitable navy. It may maintain them... More
  • The history of a soldier’s wound beguiles the pain of it. More
  • The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and... More
  • The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten. More
  • The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty,... More
  • Theirs not to make reply,
    Theirs not to reason why,
    Theirs but to do and die. More
  • There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. There are, after all, the men who live... More
  • These, in the day when heaven was falling,
    The hour when earth’s foundations... More
  • Those that I fight I do not hate,
    Those that I guard I do not love; More
  • War is too important a matter to be left to the military. More
  • We aren’t no thin red ‘eroes, nor we aren’t no blackguards too,
    But single men in... More
  • We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers. More
  • We should have an army so organized and so officered as to be capable in time of emergency, in... More
  • What God abandoned, these defended,
    And saved the sum of things for pay. More
  • What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their... More
  • When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen. More
  • When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains,
    And the women come out to cut up... More
  • Would not some lightning flash of vision sear people’s consciousness into life again? What was... More
  • You had your breakfast in bed before,
    But you won’t have it there anymore. More

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